THE KECOnDEK - 1921-1930 Toronto Bible College

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This iiumhei- of the lu'c-ordor is made up largely of extracts from letters received during tlie session from for- mer students of the College wiio ar? now on the mission field. These letters come from all parts of the world. These pages show how widely scattered is the Bible College Family. Tliey also reveal something of tlic daily life of rliese students as they carry on this work to which they have been called in ditferent parts of the world.

The Bible Collesre has alwavs ticeii

a recruiting ground for foi'eign mis- sionary service. The evangelization of the world is ever kej)t in the fore- ground as llie great task of the Church. All the Mission Boards of tile Canadian Churches and all the Inter- denominational IMi.ssions represented in Canada have missionaries in their service who received part or all oP their training in the Bible College. Five of tlie class graduating this spring arc aready under appointment ti» th(» field.

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The Closing Exci-cises of the pres- ent scission will be held on the last two days of April.

On Thursday, April 2!»th, in the

'ternoon. the annual conference of

lie Alumni Ass<iciation will take place.

.\rrangements for this gathering are

'ing made by the Committee and an

'inouncement will be sent out by the

>''cretarv. Rev. Dixon I'urns. In the

evening of tlie same day will be held the annual meeting of the Student^ A.sso.'iation in the Assembly- Hall of the College.

On Friday evening. AjjimI -'{(Hh. the (iiad'iating JCxercises will take plai-c in Knox Chui'eh. when the first cUins to graduate under the extended course of three years will receive diplomas.

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Dr. .1. K. (Ji-iiliaiu ^ '22 I writes of a t rip irit{> tho inouii- i.iiii rr^idii of Xor- llicni llupcli wiiich lie look with Mr. Kul^i-cn, a Swcdisli iiiissioiiary who luis ht't'ii for over tliir- ty-two years i ii ( 'hiiia. After spriiiliiiu: a wi'ek at TIaiikow aiul aiiotlier week at Ilwan^cliow we got our outfits to»rether, whieli eon- sistod of cot^s and bedding, some ehanges of clothing and a little for- eign food. We took a eook and col- porteur, about 1,000 go.spel portions and mimerns tracts.

The country we pa.ssed through was very beautiful, range after range of mountains or high hills, with narrow vaHeys and occasional streams. All up these vaTeys and along the sides of the mountains, every foot of ar- able land is under cultivation. In fact, they use land that we would think was impossible, but they have a real .system of their own. Looking up one of these valleys it presents a view like a large stairway or a large ampi- theatre. As the rain is never certain, they have dug out huge pits at the top, and during the dry weather this water is let out and runs down irri- gating all the fields with little diffi- culty. But there had been a long dry season this year and most of tlie pits were empty.

The farmers live in small villages, their lK)Uses huddled dose together, and one door, very seldom any win- dows. The light gets in through an opening in the roof covered with glass. The Chinese .seem content to live in these dark, dingy, damp, dungeon- like houses. To add to this they have no chimneys for the smoke to go out <if, but it filiS all the liouso and gets

out any place it can. The dogs, pigs, eats, and chickens are as welcome as the rest of the family, and, as we would lie invited out to a feast, while "we aro eating the animals all come in and nick up whatever is thrown on the fioor. In the Chinese home they throw everything on the floor, never leave sci-aps on the table. Often a free-for- all fight takes place over the bones and we have to take care lest we also become involved.

One is more and more impressed with the demoralizing effect idol wor- shippers expose them.selves to, and cannot but be the main cause of China's present condition. In one temple we visiteil. which was very famous, the priest said they had an idol that could stand up. AVe were much interested and asked him if he would not kindly have the idol do .so for us to .see. "Oh," lie said, "of course we have got to help him." He also said that this idol could write cliaracters and showed us some on the wa'l he was supposed to have written. We requested that he write some for us to see. but the priest replied that he never wrote in the day time but (inly at night when it was dark. One <'annot but he impresjied with the eagerness with which the people seek to deceive themselves and thus close their minds to the entrance of any liuht. However, when we preach to them and try to show how useless it is to bow down and worship tbese dead j things, and show liow they carniot even i help themselves and thus nnich less anyliody else, they all smile and say that is right. Rut years of folOwins these things have darkened tlie mind to spiritual realities and leave very little to which to appeal to. Yet in all the places we were, there were some who seemed to understand and gave signs of apprehending the mean- ing and need of the gospel.

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At our iit'Xt st()|> tln'i'c was a tlica- Away up in tlit'sf out of llic way

trk-al iHM-foniiauci' •roiuj; (ui and tln' pla.-cs. tlic ('liiiu'sc kiK.w littlf of what •■ountry proj)!,. .-an..- fn.n. all ov.r au.i '^ ^">'"^' '^"j;' <'"; ••''^' ';'' V"' ^^''''''/'o^

it ^avc us a <ro<Hl chanci' to prcarli to tluMU. Our hooks wcpf now al sdli! out. hut we ijavc out iract.s. All up in this country the prai-ticc of foot- Miulinij j;ot's on as (tf old. we onlx' saw two trirls with iarire t'ect, so in cvci-y phu'C we t'xhoi-tt'd the pt'oplc to stop this foolish and liarinful mstoiii.

in China. They knew litth- ahout the Shan-iliai atVair and .sccnit'd to <'are less. Here it is out' <rrcat strujjsl'* ff>'' cxistcnrc and the survival of the fit- test, if the crnps an' had thoy are on the very:!' n[' starvation and it takes them all their time to tide over until lie next crop, this uotwithstandiiii: the faet that they have two erops a \'eai'.

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.Miss Daisy Kin? don ( "2;]). the first student of the Bible Collei:!' tn cjo out untler the Heart of Africa ]Mis.sion, tells of her arrival and hei- work at her station in the Bel- jjian ("oucyo. We ai-rived at Poko. the first IT. A. M. station, at the heginninfj of September, after a fortniofht's jour- ney up the miorhty Conoro. and two days by motor trui-k. After spending ten days at Poko we were able to get ]00 porters for our luguage and we then trekked to Nala. another station about five days journey away. We ladies trek in tipos, a kind of Sedan chair carried by four men. But even this mode of travelling lia.s its thrills, especially when one is carried down a steep slippery path, or across very rickety native bridges. ]Most of the way there was no road but just a foot path through forests and villages, where the people all run to have a good look at you, and if you smile at them they are so pleased and delighted. Three weeks ago I came out to this station which is about three hours by tipo from Ibambi. The .station is real- ly just a clearing in the heart of a big forest ; leopards have been heard prowling around the houses at night.

1 have not yet heai'd thcM- intruders, anil of course they cannot get into the h.ouses. but if one keeps goats or has a dog they will attack and kill them.

1 have charge of the .si-hool work amongst the boys. There are thirty- eight boys now living on the station. A black man looks after their food, and superinteiuls their work around the station such as cleaning up the paths and planting.

Each morning at 6.80 a.m. a bugle is blown, and all the workmen and boys line up on parade, salute the Bel- gian flag as it is l)eing hauled up. and then sing the national anthem. After this they all have drill for fifteen miinites, and then I have the boys for a .short morning service and give them a wee message for the day.

After breakfast T have school with the boys who can read, and teach tliem Spelling and Arithmetic. Some of them are quite clever and have been known to learn to read in six months. Tlien in the afternoons from two to four, I have all the boys and forty- five workmen in for Reading and Writing. I do not actually teach them Reading, the boys who can read act as teachers to the others in all the various stages of learning. The lower clas.ses have cards hung out in front of them with various syllables, eon- sonants and vowels, while the others have blocks with words on them. At

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till' t'lul (if i'lU'h week those who know i-ai'ds oi" hl(M'ks come up tn mr. ami 1 hear tlieiii. ami if tliev i-cally know llit'iu, 1 pass them on to the next cbiss. I feel sorry for some of the irrnwii-up men foi" tliey do try so hard, perspire so hard (from nervousness [lerliapsi, and try to spiuttei- nut the syllahles. 1 am jrlad, and the\' arc more iiiad

still, when 1 am ahle to pass them up. I ^iies^ the liuys thiid\ me rather "mu- k;ili" ( lierre ) as they express it, be- cause I won't allow tiiem to talk in sehiiol : and as King^wana does not mi nee words hut says what it means, I am often sayinof in school "funga kinyu" (shut your mouth). But I am en.)()\ing the work immensely.

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.Mrs. Less!ie(iari-ett ( .^^•lry ( lomme "24 i and her hushand, lvc\' Le- slic( iarrcl t, occupy a noi'thcrn post under the .\n- glieau Chui'cli am- ong the Imlians in the region of Hud- son Bay.

T^ast July T received a vei-y kind letter from the Missioiuiry Society of T. li. (". written in March, and enclos- ing a Money Order. Perhaps you will hai'dly helieve it possihle, hut I am answering this l)y "re^turn of post" (Dee. 31st). There should have heen a mail out last August, hut oui- Ictteivs cidy got as far as the coast, then they i-ame hack to Trout Lake hecause the scliooiu'r had called at Severn two Weeks earlier than usual, and would fu)t he back until July 11*20.

We foujul an Indian was going out to a place on the lailway line so we just sent out a letter to mother, hoping it would reaeli lier sometime this year. Otherwise we have had no communi- cation with tlie outside world sinee tlie first week in July.

We Were much cheered this ('hrist- mas 1 y the arrival of two (piitt- elder- ly men from a long way south. They had travelled "three nights jouiTU'v". That means four days travel hy do<r r]*'i] ill order to hi-ing in an offering, and attend the services. They also wanted to buy books for their friends who (ould not get in. One man sent ill a lovely skin which fetehed .seventy dollars at the store and it was all to l>c spent on l)ooks. The range f)f hof)ks

is ver\- limited, just prayer books, h>-mn hooks, and two small books of short addresses and hymns. They are now |)i'intiiig a monthly paper for the Indians and we have a few copies of that, hut although printed every month we won't I)e able to get them more often than once a year.

I'p to the time of our arrival the peenle had heen taking the books on tl''''i- promising to pay for them, but SI many "forgot" their promises that we decided only to sell for "cash" or its equivalent, fur. At first there was ({uite a to-do, but now they have got quite used to the idea and either bring their fur to us to take to tlie store, or else take it themsC'Ves and bring us an order for the amount realized.

We feel so nnich that to meet the needs of these scattered people we will have to have some way of sending them wi'itten messages from time to time. These would have to be written in the Syllables and then copied and sent out.

^Fanv of the people do not get to the Mission more than once in three er four years, and then only for a few days. They are so scattered that it is almost impassible to visit them in their camps, for not only is travel- lini; difficult hut terribly expensive. Then there is the difficulty of the laner- uage. We are gradually picking it pp. hut it is slow work especially as the Trout Lake Indians speak a slightl.v different dialect from anj' that is printed, so that the grammars we have are not always the help they should he.

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.Mr. ll.*rl)t*rl A. (i.Trard ('21) tells of iit'W woi'k lie is t'litt'riiifr upon iiiii- oii>; the Iiuliaiis oi" I lie Ar^'tMitinc and Kolivia. t'oi" wliic'i h I' asks special prayer.

I woulil like to ask you if you would kiiidl\- pas.s on to the Missiou- ai\v Society, or to the Mi.ssionai'y prayer ineetiii<i', a re(|uest for pi"ayer for the Indians of the Argentine and Bolivia, especially the Chirijiuauo nation of them. Sinee eoinhig to South America over four years ago a great deal of our time has heen spent anion*? them, so we have got to know them fairly well. But though both Mi-. Powell and 1 have made several at- teniptstostudy their language, neither one of us has ever got very far on with it, owing to the ever present pres-

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Mrs. B. G. Fay (Annie ^Nla.son '17) who was home on furlough Avith her husband and familv last year, writes again from her field of service under the lidand vSouth America ^Missionary Union.

Some new believers in the country are sult'ering persecution. One elderly wonum lived all alone because lier hus- liand did not like the Gospel. The neiglil)ours did not like it either so they came at niglits to throw stones at the door, take the gra.ss roof off, fire shots, until the poor old lady wa.s so frightened that she left the place. Her s'heep slu^ sold very cheap, but the other animals she left.

In another camp place nearer As- ♦•uncion there were .special meeting.s. A watch-night service was to conclude them. Men from long di.stances came on horseback to disturb. When it came about time for the invitation to be given the devil got l)u.sy as usual. A

sure of tile Sj)anish work. For a good many years something has been done among them in the matter of (Jospel pro|)agan<la, tint always in a languaL'e foi'eign to them. As time goes on we have all been more and more im- pressed with the tremendous advant- age thel'c Wdidd lie in being able tO s]teak tliiently tlieir own tongue. At last Mr. I'owell and 1 have arranged among our.selves that he take over, as far as possible, the Spanish end of the work in order to leave me more free foi- the study of Cliiriguano. Hy the Lord's gi-ace 1 have been able to make some ju-ogress, l»ut 1 iiave still a long way to go before I shall be able to do any translation of the Scriptures. This C'hiriguaiio nation seems to be espe- cially open to the (Jospel, far more so tlian the Ai-geiitiiies and Uolivians. Vet they have none of the Scriptures li-anslated into theii- own language. Besides all this there are many thous- ands of them that have never heard a word of the (lOspel. "How shall they hear without a preacher".'

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lady missionary was alxiut to give her testimony when a man sprang up wnth a war whoop, waving a long sword wildly in the aii'. He started to pound the baby organ, and went in among tl^e people bringing terror to them. The crowd soon hid and the lights were put out. He did not do any harm to any one, ])ut the ladies were in a house that did not have a door, so they could not sleep the remainder of the niglit. It was iiub^ed a watch night service.

In Yegros the other day an elderly couj)le were being dealt with and the woman broke down crying, saying that she was too big a siiuiei- to come to God. My husband said that he had never seen that happen before here. The people don't think they are bad. Much prayer had gone up for a re- vival in Para, and one sometimes thinks that the cloud the size of a nuuTs hand is in sight.

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lu'V. .lolm ('. I'roc- Irl- I "1(1 1, wi'itos I'lMiii Ati^'oln of tilt' woi'k winch lie and livv. A. A. Wilson ( 'l.'^'i aro carrying nil ill l*()i-tuj;uesc Wrst Africa, under tlic Sontli Africa (Icncral Mission. Here at tlic Cnclci, ainon<i'st the Vanyt'iiil>a tril)t\ tlie Messafjo is still so new. and oui* presentation of the truth so imperfect, tliat there seems to be little evidence of the working of the Gospel aiiiDiiLi'st the pe(>])Ie. Last month, 1 ventured to ask one of the natives the foTowinfi' question after a service: "Do you understaiui the ]Mes- sage yet ?" After a monu'ut's thought he, very guardedly, replied: "Yes! AVe are hegiiniing to undersitand a

litth' (if some of your sayings — some- times." Usually, they protest that we si)eak the language perfectly, that tliey iiiMh'rstand fully, and believe ab- solutely in tlie (lospel message. So yon will uiuh'rstand that the frankness of til is hoy was, to say the least, re- freshing.

We are happy in the work here, and although the enemy hates the light, and seeks to hinder the work, we be- lieve that (iod will honor His Word, ami that tlie seed sown will bring ffuif.

A little medical work is done, and a few boys are being trained as carpen- ters and l)ricklayers, so that eventu- ally the missionaries will be relieved of a good deal of the manual labour connected with a mission station, and will be able to devote more time to other branches of the work.

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Mis.s Tnez Botterell ("20j has been serving under the South Africa Gen- eral Mis-sion both in Durban, Natal, and up in the interior of the country. Here is her interesting account of a visit to an outstation.

Last time I took you on a walking trip among kraals near by. This time we'll go to the Mahaliani Outstation, about fifteen miles away. Albert, the native teacher at Zibungu Outstation, is to accompany us and preach also, so we impress on him the dt^sirability of being here to set out immediately after Saturday morning f)rayer meet- ing, about n.lT) a.m., as tlie sun is rather hotter now, and among the hills we shall be expo.sed to it. Starting early is not always as easy as it sounds when you have natives with cattle which will wander off. or "indabas" (affairs) which nnist be attended to, and no timepieces. Ten o'clock ar- rives, no Alltei-t : 1 1 o'clock, no Albert ; 12 ft 'clock, no Albert, although we

keep sallying forth to peer into the distance along the white road. About 12.15 Albert appears with his horse, a wild little thing that has kept him chasing about after it until so late.

Our journey is wearisome as we have steep hills to deal with, some- times on foot, and the sun is hot. At last we have come to the worst hill which leads us down, down, down to where James, our cripple preacher, has his outstation beside the pretty, winding UmzinivTibu River. Hills rise all around us at a little distance. Miss Kldridge has a hut at Mahahani, built as a memorial to her nuich-loved father. Bishop p]ldridge, so Ave have not had to liring bedding or utensils with us. James comes to take our horses and does not even smile at our retl, sunburnt faces, but welcomes us to the hut which has been nicely swept ami ripened up for us. Emily, his wife, with their little girl toddling after her, waits on us to boil our kettle or

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cook our l)t'ans and potat(X's. Out of tho box in the Init we whisk the covers and bodclotlit's. aiidsooii we have (|uite a nice little lionie for a short time.

A rest and meal rcfresli us. and then we visit the main luit of the evanjrelist and its occupants and look around a bit at the excjuisite scenery, nuiking our way nearer to the river. In the evenin«r we spend some time in pi-eparation ami then go over to the main hut for a little meetinj;. Tliey have tinished their evening meal around the tire, and we have a nice time of hymn-sin,ijin«r and some thoug-hts on the Ephesian eharaeteris- ties, faith and love, each one joining in the season of prayer. We cannot see much of the contents of this hut, but in the heathen huts the fowl gen- erally come and go at will, and some spend the night inside, together with a calf or so, a few little pigs, the dogs and the people, and often considerahle other live stock.

Our hut has two nice little open windows, so we sleep comfortably. In the morning how sweet to have our (juiet time and special prayer and study out in the open by the riA-er. As

the day goes on it becomes unusually )iot even for Ilahaliani, but our hut is mud-wallcd atid tliatchcd uid fairly cool.

Two or tlirce calls !iiust be ".iiig on a piece of iron deftly handled by native girl and then we go in lo the school-church hut for the i)ef)ple have at last arrived. A beer-drink is in ses.sion not far away, preventing hea- i^^en from coming to the first service, ai; which AIImtI interprets for us on the (lood Shei)herd, the Great Slicp- li''rd and the Chief Shej)herd. After an interval outdoors we go in again. Xow. quite a few heathen have arriv- ed, redolent of beer, and rather lieavy- e.ved, but Albert delivers a splendid, powerful message, using s)me of our material, but making it more directly evangelistic for the sake of the heati^en who have come in.

After the services we distribute picture cards to the children and teach them a chorus to the tune of •'When lie Cometh", and talk a little v/ith them, and soon after set out for Nkan- ga again. The horses are alwavs in a hurry going home, but the pulls up hill are lieavv.

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^Ir. E. Roy Baker ( '15) is in charge of a mission district of the China In- land ^Mission in Southern Ilonan. He writes recently as follows:

Since last writing to you foreign business people and missionaries have passed through one of the worst anti-foreign demonstrations since the Boxer year of 1000. You all have been reading about it so there is no need of anything further being .said. We are thankful to say that in the out of the way places, such. as this, it has practically subsided. The undercurrent efTects no doubt will remain for years, thus making mission work very difficult. While a few in some of our out-stations attempted to 7nake trouble we are thankful to re-

port that the clnirches in general were not cari'ied off their feet by the agita- tors.

It is wonderful the interes-t the Christians take in building their own churches. Here and there throughout our district tlie alteration and enlarg- ing of church property, and the build- ing of new churches, is constantly go- ing on. I was amazed recently on learning that the few Christians at "Ancient City" market town were building a new church, a hope they cherished for years. One meiid)er, a juost faithful and devoted old num. is giving neai-ly everything he possesses in order that their little church might be completed. His giving is real .sac- rificial giving, such as we praise God

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t'i)r. and t"t»r the work itf ^M-in-c in his life, for lie ltIni's all his time to the work of the church wilhniit rcccix ini;- !X cent from the mission.

I'lai'ly last sniiunci- a market hiwii seven miles to the south of this city was nearly iialf di'stroyed by fire. The Christians foi* years had been moved

to the time when they mi<iht occupy it. l>iit alas. the\- oiiIn' held two ser- \ iei's ill it, when the lire swept all be- fore it. ineludin^- their newly built ehui-eh. Needless to say they are down-hearted and know not what to do. for the autumn crops were a fail- ure and ever.N ihiiiii- is so expensive,

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place, and then in that, until linallx' about a \eai" ap> they manaj^cd to purchase a place of their own. Last sprinjr they built a new church antl were looking; forward with jrreat joy

times as much as a year ago. Please pray for the Christians at this "Fallen N'illa^e" nuirket town, who have done so nobly in the past, that they might again have a ehiireh in which to wor- shii>.

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.Mr. and .Mrs. (Jeorge Hell are in tlie extreme west of China, Avorking not only among the Chinese, but especial- ly aiming to reach the Tiiietans who i'ome across the liordei-. .Mrs. Bell (Dorothy AVade '2:^) .sends the follow- ing account of their last Christnms (lav, which shows that people there enjoy the .social side of Chrisian fel lowship as much as ourselves.

The morning of the 'ioth we were all astir very early, and soon had the final preparations for the day's activi- ties completed. Before ten o'(dock the prayer meeting started, whei-e fJotl's people here, called upon Him to bless the services during these three days when we were celebrating the birth of Ilis son. At eleven the doors were thrown oj)cn and before long, the hall we had bfu-rowed for the oc- e>asion which is vsifuated on one of the main business strect.s, was crowded.

Tlie women's kang was too small to hold all who came, .so benches had to lie tu'ought in to acconnnodate those who wanted to listen. A native preacher from another Mission told about the birth of the Saviour of man- kind and sought to turn his hearers' hearts unto Tlim AVho came to earth as a little child. At the end of the service, tlie Christians were told to stay for their own particular treat.

Of course, each one had brought as many relatives as possible, but that made all the more fun when we played games. The Chinese were just as ex- cited as a group of kiddies at home are when the yearly Christmas enter- tainment comes around. A number of us tried to pin a pigtail to a Chinaman and what laughs our poor attempts (dicited. A few men were sent out of the room and l)rought in one by one. Each one was shown a few piles of books, told to look well, then blind- folded, they lifted up their long gowns and tried to step over. Great was their surprise to the delight of the (■'dookers when they discovered that the books had been taken away long before. Then we tried "IMusical ('hail's", and even a couple of old women joined in when women alone tried. Hut, though the games were an im|)oi1an1 part of the programme

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aiul (H'casioiit'il a great (li'.-il 111" fun and liad 1 ccn pi cpai'i-d li\ a piNd'cssiunal

lau^htci-, a iiiorf important item still, conk; l)iit uc all cii.joycd it. A year

was to coiiic. a«r(> the Christinas feast was a ni^flit-

Tlu' p'aee was (|uirUly cleared and niai'e to nie. lint this year I ate plenty

tables s(>t for the "eats". There were u\' evei-yt liing. and almost wished that

two tables for women (each seatinfj^ I were like a i-amel in one respect,

over ten), two for m.'ii. and nne for Soon darkness crept un, and weary in

hoys, the fxirls stayinir willi tlieii"

lody, tint liajtpy in spii'it, |)raisin<; tho

mothers. The Christians had them- ,,.,,., ,

seIvo.s. with the aid of a small jiift '^'"•'' '"'• H '^ ^'<>'"l".'ss, we eame home

from us, paid for and eooked the food. 1" ii '"p of ^("'d forel^'n tea. and a

Of courso, it was not so niee as if it nice loiif.^' sleep.

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Key. 1). 1. deftVey ('15) of (\)ehin- Cliiiia. writes us of the triumph of the Gospel in that land where his mission has ai)pro.\imately one thousand bap- tized converts as a result of their work hegun in 191:^

Recoji'uizing the sound principle that a country must be won to Christ largely by her own sons, they are seeking to establi.sh a self-supporting and self-propagating Anamese church. To this eiul in 1921 they opened a Bible College for the training of evan- gelists and pastors. From an attend- ance of eleven in the first year, the present enrolment has grown to fifty young men and thirty young women, all preparing for the ministry. The students are drawn from various sta- tions in life. ^lany of them are uni- versity men, doctcr.s, teachers, clerks, carpenters, and farmers. All are /.eal-

o;;s of pi-caching' the (iospel. The course extends over three or four years. Kacli alternate year is spent out of the College in actual work. Mr. detl'rey pays a high tribute to the efficiency of Frt'iich rule which has brought to the country all the external benefits of western civilization in edu- cational institutions, roads, sanitation, etc. He says "Ours is the opportun- itv to preach the Oo.spel that puts the C'ORNER STONE into their civiliza- tion, and we thank (Jod that the foun- dation has been laid in lndo-C"hina, but a great work is yet to be done. We covet the interest and prayers of all who are interested in Bible College work, that the students of the Word of (Jod in French Indo-China may be estatilished and strengthened for the furtherance of the Gospel in that needv land."

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Miss Alice H. .Munns, '18, of the United Church Mission, Xeeinucji, C. I., has given us the foUowinu- inter- esting note regarding her work :

School teaciiing in India in many respects does not differ from school teaching in Canada, hut the conditions under which the teaching is done differ greatly. One of tiie schools of which I iiad charge was for boys of the leather-workers caste, despised and shunned bv all others because the\'

belonged to the "untouchables". The little whitewashed two-roomed build- ing on tlie outskirts of the town was the school-house for the thirty or forty pupils who attended. Here the children gathered each day to be in- structed by the Christian head master and his wife. The children sat in rows (Ui the floor, holding their slates on their knees, ami with their books on the floor in front of them. With the lusty singing of a hymn, whicli coidd

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not lie ciillcil uiusii-, aiul ;i pi'iiycr, the sclidol was opt'iifd. ("lasses in aritli- luotk* and n'aclinjr canic lirst. At'tiM" a sluirt rt'ct'ss, the Hililc lesson was tauirlit. 'I'Ihmi came a review of tlie previous lesson irivcii li\- one of the boys. The way in wliii-ji the i-eview was >riven showed thai the lesson had heen cartd'n'ly tantrht and ieai-nt'd. This was fdllowed li\- the new lesson

story or the eontinuatioii of the old one. Then eaiiie the memory work. .Many wei'e the liynnis, verses, and chapters which these hri^ht-oyed boys coiniuitted to memory. We trust they also sloi'cd them in their hearts. Who (•••Ml s:iy now what the result will be? lie has said "My Woi-d shall not re- t urn unto me void.

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Willi ea -h new ^roup of students a fresh impetus is <>iveii to sonu' j)ar- tieular part of our evan'jelistie work". This is particularl.\- noticeable in oui- Hospital and Sunday School woi-k un- der the supei'vision of Miss Graham aiul ^riss Jessie Anderson.

Regular visits to the Hospitals ar(} made by a inim'er of the students and on Sunday various wards are visited by small o-roups to eariy on a grospel service. Tlu^ results are very frratifying. One Sunday alone as many as five profes.sed to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as their per- sonal Saviour.

During the session a larofe percent- age of the students have been engraged in teaching in Sunday School classes and in various other departments of Young People's work. Their great desire to see the children brought to

Jesus and th(^ many earnest prayers offi'i'cd \\\) on their behalf has resulted in being horn into the Kingdom ol (lod.

Opportunities have opened for the Evangelistic Hand to visit several chiM'chcs and missions in the city and a real work of grace has been mani- fested on a uum])er of occasions. On Feb. 28th the Band, when "holding forth the word of life'' in one of our prominent ]\Iissions, had the joy of seeing seven openly proclaim alleg- iance to the Lord Jesus Christ.

On another occasion the pastor of the church wrote to the College: "The Deacons Board have asked me that if it is possible we invite the Band to our pul])it again. The folk are very enthusiastic over the Band and the choir have won for themselves a large {)laee in the hearts of our people."

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A son. Paul TJoforth, was born on February 12th at Toronto to Rev. and Airs. Ivory JefTrey, of French Tndo- China.

A son. Edward Herbert, was born on .May f)th to Mr. and IMrs. Herbert A. (ierrard, at Ledesma, Argentina.

Mr. Vernon W. (iibson ('24) and Mi.ss Katharine Blanch(> Oliver ('24) were married on November 17th at Minna, Northern Nigeria. Mr. and Mrs. Ciibson are serving under the Sudan Interior Mission.

Mrs. Elsie E. Grosart, formerly a student of the Evening Classes, and for some years a missionary of the Chiiui Inland Mission, was married on January 26th to Mi'. Henry R.Grahain at Kenora, Out.

Rev. Herbert Ij. Troyer has been called from Essex to Bethany Baptist Church, Todmorden, and has begun his ministry there. This is the church whicii was established and built up by Rev. Dixon Burns while he was a student at the Bible College.

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]\rr. Victor Vcary ('2:{), wlio has been in Kii«!:hm(l t'oi" iikh-c tliaii a yi'af, has hecii a|)poiiittHl In the Sudan United Mission to woi'k anionjr somo of tlie tribes in tliat part of the Sudan tliat is under h'l-eneii government, lit' is at present leai-niii^- Kreneh at tlie l^ihle Institute eondui-ted liy Pastor SaiHens near Paris.

Miss Fkirenee Walker {'2'A) lias re- turned from Afriea to Fin«iland for a short furlou^rh. She will take a short eourse of study in Fi-anee and ijo out again to a new field in the French Sudan.

.Mr. Harold Daney ('24) is at Pync Valley, P. PH., where he has charge of a mission field under the Presby- terian Home Mission Board.

Mr. Wm. ('. Tiffin ( '24) is in charge of a church in Chicago which has called him to the pastorate. He is also taking some further studies in the Northern Baptist Seminary.

:\Ir. and Mrs. Robert Moynan ('23) sailed for China in February in com- pany with ]Mrs. Moynan 's parents. Dr. and ^Frs. Jonathan Coforth. Dr. Goforth has returned to China in re- sponse to an urgent call to act as Chaplain in ^Marshal Feng's army. He has taken ]\Ir. and i\Irs. IMoynan with him to assist him in his work.

At a recent meeting of the Council of the Sudan Interior ^Mission five students now attending the Bible Col- lege were accepted for service in Northern Nigeria. Two who grad- uate in April will prepare to go out in the fall, !Mr. Samuel Shepherd and ^lis^; Lillian Ihndnuui. The otlier

tlirt-e arr .Mi-. Aubi-ey lluni. Miss Beati-icr -laekson, and Mr. David H. Hough. Tiiey wi 1 be taking another year of study iti the Bible ('ollege.

W'c Ui'i'e glad to \\r|c(»iiir as a

visitoi' III till' cl.-iss moiii rcci'iit ly, Mr. .Morley 1*. iiell. one of tin- cai'liest graduates of the ('o'lege. (>ui' sym- pathy goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Bell in tlii' death of their eldest daughter which took place on l-'chruary (ith after a lingering illness.

A letter- from our friend .M i-. Robert Hayson w ho spent part of tin* session with us. tells that he is back in his old haunts in northern liritish Colum- bia, where he is inspecting a telegraph line along the shores (d" the Portland Canal. He ha.s a gasoline launch at his dispasal and a man to i-un it. He has met a large nund)er of men from the mines, with wliom he woi-ked some twenty years ago. He says ".some of them look at me as a kind of curiosity, as they cannot understand what the Lord has done for nie." This has given him wonderful op|H)rtunities of giving a testimony, illustrating in his own life the transforming power of the Gospel. Speaking of victory over t(Mnptation, he says ''T am sure the angel of the Lord encampeth around about them that fear him." ^fr. Haysom is located near the Alas- kan boi-der wlici'c church privileges are few. He has asked that his friends remember him verj' specially in prayer that an o}iening may occur for him to entci- upon some regular form of ( lirist ian sei-vice.

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Rev. 1\. \\ Mac'Kay, D.D. Chairman.

Rev. E. Hooper, ]\I.D Vice-Chainnaii.

Mr. Joseph X. Slieii.stone Treasurer.

I^'v. -Ichii McXicol. Rev. T. B. Hyde,

.Mr. Martin Love. .Air. Thos. S. Cole,

.Mr. I-:, (i. P.;il<('r, Mr. R. C. Kilj^our.

(J^fftcpra at llir (EiUlrnp

R.'v. .I.ihii McXicol. P,.A.. n.l) Priiicii)al.

.1. M. Waters, M.1).,C.M Seeretary.

Mrs. Annie (Jrav Assistant Seeretary.

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R.-v. .lolui MeXicol, li.A., B.I). Rev F. S. Weston, .M.A., D.D. .1 M. Water.s, :\I.D..C.M.

Rev. W. (J. Hanna, B.A. Rev. T. B. Hyde AFr. Ernest Shildriek.

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