Practical Bible Training School - Theologue Yearbook (Johnson City, NY)

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MRS. IOHN And God is able to make all grace abound toward youg that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. H Corinthians 9:8 A. DAVIS ' 'Mother Davis , E as students are grateful to God for the blessed privilege that has been ours of enjoying your presence and sweet Christian fellowship during our days here at P.B.T.S. Your life has been an incentive to us to yield ourselves wholly to Christ and to allow Him to use us for His honor and glory. We have seen in you the radiance and Christian love which should shine, forth from every child of Godg you have truly reflected Christ to us. Many times we have received encouragement from your sweet. smile and thoughtful words and deedsg they have spurred us to reach higher heights for our Saviour. God has given you this precious work of ministering to the students in your quiet every day livingg it is a noble work and we pray that you may continue to be the blessing to other students that you have been to us. --Paul Heffentrager. 7

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For the Lord God will help meg there- fore shall I not be confounded, there- fore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. Isaiah 50:7 REV. IOHN A. DAVIS, D. D FOUNDER s we, the class, of '49, view the life of our founder, john A. Davis, we see in him an example of what our God can do in and through a life that is fully and completely yielded to Him. The Spirit of God working through a man, the Word of God speaking to a man, and the man of God yielded were the leading factors which encouraged our founder to take a worldy amuse- ment park and make out of it a,training center for Christian Young People to prepare for His Service. With his vision of service ever before us we too have, Set our faces like a flint as we endeavor to carry on the work of our Lord in bringing precious souls into God's Kingdom. His faithfulness and devotedness to the task which was be- fore him inspires us, who are the outgrowth of his work, on to fuller, richer, and deeper consecration to our Saviour. ---Betty C. Towers. 6 .in

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IH ITIEITIURIHIH Fred Alden Mills Celia lMrs. Leonard Lincolnj FRED ALDEN MILLS Mrs. Alice Roorbach Mills T was a winter day in 1906 and Evangelist John A. Davis was standing with foot on the step of the train coach awaiting its departure for Ithaca, New York. He was having a few final words with his intimate friend john R. Clements. By the way, John, I have no singer for my campaign in Ithaca, can you recommend some one? Why, yes, Fred Mills lives in Ithaca. Try him. And thus began a partnership in evangelism which lasted for seven years, and a friendship which endured for the remainder of their lives, and has, doubtless been renewed in Eternity. This Evangelistic Party fcomposed of Iolm A. Davis, Fred A. Mills, and George H. Carry was used of God in a most singular way from coast to coast. From Brooklyn to Seattle the Gospel was so presented in sermon, song, and music that tens of thousands were added tot the Family of God. They laboured together for about seven years when the voice of Dr. Davis failed and Mr. Mills turned to other fields of Christian endeavor. Fred Alden Mills was born September 24, 1878, in Auburn, New York. He graduated from High School in Brooklyn, New York, and from Cornell University in the Class of 1904. While in Cornell he was a member of the University Glee Club. Returning to the University for graduate work, he also studied at the same time in the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1905. At the Conservatory he was president of the Simphonia Musical Fra- ternity. In 1910 Mr. Mills married Miss Alice M. Roorbach who was at that time pastor's as- sistant to Dr. Edson I. Farley of the First Baptist Church of Oneonta, New York. To them was born one daughter, now Mrs. Leonard Lincoln of Manchester, Connecticut. 8 Continued on p. 22 gg ggggg .ie