The Story of the School

The Bible Institute of Los Angeles has passed the third mile stone in its eventful history. Three years ago it entered its present quarters with a nucleus of two popular night classes, the Fishermen's Club of young men and the Lyceum Club of young women, both of which had been conducted for a year or more. The first session of the day classes was attended by fifteen students. Our rooms were large and commodious. We had strong convictions that God called us to the service of training workers for home and foreign fields and spreading the Gospel, and we launched out into the deep in full assurance of faith.
The Institute was organized and incorporated on a strong evangelical basis including, "The full and complete Divine inspiration, the infallibility and supreme authority of Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, in the Deity of Jesus Christ, in His death as a substitutionary sacrifice, in His present intercession as the right hand of God and His premillanial and imminent return and in the personal presence and efficiency of the Holy Spirit in the Church."
No one can ever hold an office or teach in the School who does not stand four square on the old doctrines.
This evangeliical (sic) position was not designed nor calculated to make up (sic) popular with the masses of Christians, but long years of service had taught us that adherence to the fundamental doctrines of the Scripture and implicit faith in the verbal inspiration of the Word of God would meet the approval of the Lord and we coveted His favor more than ought else. The development of the work as been natural and logical. Our policy has been the organization of Bible classes wherever possible and the spread of the Gospel wherever practicable.
Departments have been added to our work in the following order: Shop work, Bible Women, Work for the Jews, Bible Class Extension, Spanish Mission, Evangelistic, including special services in churches, tents, and among the men of the aqueduct and oil fields. A Book room was opened for the sale of best books and tracts. Out of a weekly outline for our Sunday School Teachers Class grew the little paper we now publish, the King's Business.
Form a couple of hundred in our classes each week, the numbers have grown to two and three thousand. Ou commodious quarters are overcrowded.
We have never had in connection with our work a secular address or entertainment. We have had no attraction but the Bible and sweet, strong and loving fellowship in the things of God. We have been permitted to reach out to San Francisco on the north and to San Diego on the south and put some spiritual stamp upon the life of the young people of the whole State.
It would be impossible to follow the intricate paths of service into which the hundreds of workers identified with us have been led, but they have been manifold and wonderfully blessed. God has kept up true to our purpose, has saved us from dissension, has enlarged our scope of service, widened our influence and is constantly increasing our constituency of praying friends.
We enter our fourth year in this most blessed work with intensified faith in God's call and purpose. We have had our foundations deep and strong; we have progressed on our knees and have visions of great things for His glory for the future. We covet the prayers of all of God's people that we may be kept true and to the faith once for all delivered to the saints, humble in service and bold in exploits for our King.