Alumni Extracts
I am returning from a General Meeting for South American workers, held
in Buenos Aires, February 23 to March 20. Representatives from the four
unions were present. We had councils and conventions for all departments
of the work. The South American representatives represent every school year
of our existence, with the exception of the present year. Twenty of E. NM. C's
sons and daughters are in the neglected continent, and four more are either on
the way or getting ready. Doesn't that thrill your heart, and hasten your pulse?
South America, in spite of her poverty, wants a part in heralding this
message to the ends of the earth. We plan to double the attendance in our
own schools in two years. A heavy evangelical program, embracing every
union in the Division, 1s also planned. Our own school in Lima, “El Institute
Industrial,” the youngest Union training school in the denomination, will open
April 5. Our students are earnest, and we believe many will find their places
in the vineyard of the Master. With love and best wishes to all.
HH. B. Lundquist.
Casilla 1002, Lima, Peru.
I am still here on the hill. This 1s my seventh vear which vou know being
a perfect number denotes completion. Professor and Mrs. Klooster are here.
He is still teaching science but she busies herself with little Carol Evelyn most
of the time. J. M. Kennedy, who 1s an E. M. C. man, is our history teacher.
We are a Junior College now. This 1s our first year and there are only
four in the thirteenth grade but we are growing, for there are forty in the ninth
grade. There are 210 enrolled in all grades.
Yes, I like it here. We are surrounded by small lakes. A five minutes’
walk from the college building brings us to Lake Barnett, where there is a fine
swimming beach. If you don't think Alberta is all right, come and see; seeing
is believing.
Harriet Beardsley.
Lacombe, Alberta.
During the months we have been in India we have been hemmed in by
the four walls of language study, out of which there is no paved wav. The
only way is to climb the narrow, rugged path of eight to twelve hours study a
day and go over the top.
There are occasional glimpses outside of these walls. Recently a man
came six hundred miles at his own expense to make an appeal for an evangelist
to come to his district. Colporteur s have gone into the villages scattering
everywhere the “Present Truth” (our Vernacular magazine).
At a recent conference of all the foreign workers in India there were only
five E. M. C.-ites: Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith, Margaret Cady-Semmons, Mrs.
Shepard and myself. Where do they all go? We think this is the best place
in the world. The needs are beyond anything that we have ever seen before.
The calls are beyond anything that we are able to fill with our meager staff
of workers. For 65,000,000 people there are only eight families. |
L. C. Shepard.
11 Coles Road, Bangalore, India.