THE KING’S BUSINESS
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WORK AT YOKEFELLOWS’ HALL William Sloan, Sup’t.
\ \ T E have had an attendance of 1250 dur- ¥ * ing the month at the nightly Gospel services in the Mission Hall, and fifty to 150 each evening have listened very attentively at the street meeting. Twelve hundred and seventy-seven men have been fed and nine teen have accepted Christ. The wood yard in connection with the Mission has met the expense of feeding the men. It is as necessary to feed men now as it was in the winter. For the month, we have been studying John’s Gospel. Each man is given a Bible and questions are asked as we go along. Every man takes part in the service. We trust the Word to dq its work. It -is the transient class of men that we reach mostly —herb" today, gone tomorrow—sin-cursed, discouraged and bound by the devil. All nationalities and classes can be found in a Yokefellows’ audience. The orchestra and singing is mighty good; many a fellow is;bsought in by it. A Bible-study class is held each Sunday afternoon for converts. OUPPOSING , then, that God should smite you with afflictions without, and with temptations' within, and should leave the soul, so far as consolations are con cerned, in a state of entire aridity? Do then, I would say, what God requires you to do, and suffer what He requires you to suffer; but in everything be resigned and patient. With humility of spirit, with a sense of your own nothingness, with the re iterated breathings of an ardent but peaceful affection, and with inward submission and quietness, you must wait the return of the Beloved. In this way you will demonstrate that it is God Himself alone and His good pleas ure which you seek, and not the selfish de
We are now studying the book of Ephesians A half dozen or so of the converts of last month are still about the Mission and show good progress in Christian experience. It is very necessary that we find work for the fellow who starts the Christian life. He is usually “broke,” and then some. A French Catholic gets in earnest to know Chris,t and the Lord saves him. A- young fellow from back East has the appearance of. playing with a buzz saw; sin gets out when Christ is permitted to come in; he comes back twenty-five days later and none of us know him in his new togs. His testimony -for Christ was a fine introduction to a “new man” in Christ Jesus. Soap, Soup and Sal vation make a big change in a sin-cursed fellow. You can pray for us even if you can’t do more. We are open 365 days in the year and trying to get men to Him who “paid it all,” and said, “It is finished.” Saved by grace ! Is that the way you were saved ? lights of your own sensations. Leave what is past in oblivion; leave what is to come to the decisions of Providence; and devote to God the present moment- —a moment which necessarily brings with it God’s eternal or der of things, and in everything excepting sin is a declaration of Hist will. By casting ourselves into the simple presence of God, in the exercise of faith, we •shall find in stant supplies of strength for our support. This was the succor sought for by David. “I have set,” saith he, “the Lord always before me ; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth ; my flesh shall also rest in hope.” And it is said in Exodus, “The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.”— Madame Guyon
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