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March 1927
the young man and he promised to cherish it as the most highly treasured thing which he possesses. Furthermore he promised to read it honestly and conscientiously with the desire to know the doctrine of God. Pray that God’s Word may accomplish that whereunto He has sent it. A D istingu ished Jew Seeking L ight A N even more striking experience is related this month by J k David L. Cooper, in connection with a visit paid him in his office by a young Jew. It appeared that this young man was born and reared in Poland and after having finished the rabbin ical schools of Poland served as Rabbi for three months there. At the expiration of this time, being dissatisfied with Judaism and considering it as .something dry aitd dead, he gave it up and entered the ranks of Zionism and worked for that organiza tion for several- years, visiting different European countries and living in Palestine for six years. Not being satisfied spiritually with its progress: and hopes .he left it and has been considering Christianity. He called at the office of Mr. Cooper and for five and a half hours the two went over numerous passages in the Hebrew and Yiddish Testaments. The passages read and con sidered were those which relate to the coming of the Messiah, most of which passages were entirely new to him. This young man is seeking for truth and is willing to take his stand for Christ and trust Him when he Sees that Christianity is the true religion. —o— God Is th e Opener o f Doors H OW would you go about starting a meeting in a shop where some two hundred men work ? Several years ago M. H. Reynolds, Superintendent of the Institute work in Shops, asked the Lord to give an entrance into just such a shop. Later he approached the foreman with the request for permission to hold a noonday service among the men. He replied that there was no time for such things. Under no circumstances were we to have permission to preach to the men. In the Book of Revelation, Mr. Reynolds read, “He will open a door and no man can shut it,” so prayer was continued. Leav ing his office one day after serious .and thoughtful prayer, Mr. Reynolds was minded to go and see the President of the Com pany, who had refused permission. On entering the office there stood the foreman who had refused permission, but upon invita tion "the president asked Mr. Reynolds to have a seat and in a few minutes he had caught a vision of what the B. I. Shop teams were trying to do for his men. Pressing a button, the foreman, who had a few years before refused the permission, came in, and in Mr. Reynolds’ presence the President of the Company told him that he wks to arrange all the details for the service, and that they were to start that week. That week standing in the presence of some two hundred men, the shop team opened that great meeting in a manner which speaks for better things for that shop. P laying and Praying Linked Up O NE of the newer departments of the Bible Institute work is the "Nuntius Club,” an organization for boys conducted by Rev. Harry H. MacArthur. Many of the Bible study clubs are now in operation in various sections of Los Angeles, the meetings being held, for the most part in private homes. The accompanying picture of a group at a home in Eagle Rock, gives an idea of the groups with which Mr. MacArthur has to deal. ..........
Speaking at an Institute report meeting;. Mr. MacArthur said: “While we enter into the different sports with our boys, such as baseball, football, and basketball, even on the athletic field we try to keep before the boys the fact that first and fore most we ,are a Christian Club, therefore before starting a gárhe we gather into a group on the field and have a number lead in brief prayers, •at times; preceding this^ with a ' short Bible study. Recently we took a team of High School boys froth Hollywood to Sierra Madre to play football. Before the game started the boys were gathered together for prayer. It was a real testimony to the onlooking crowd. The boys asked the Lord to help them to play clean and to be good winners or good losers. The game was a hotly contested one and the boys rolled in the dust until they ,could scarcely be recognized. Their prayer however was answered for outside of the dust and dirt of the field the game was CLEAN and in taking the losing team home not a word of complaint was heard.” Mr, MacArthur also told how after returning from a trip in the mountains where the boys had a blessed timé in Christian fellowship, prayer and Bible study, one of the boys found his mother and father intoxicated. It wasn’t the first-'time-he had seen his parents in this condition but never before did 1 it affect him as it did on returning from a trip with a bunch of Christian boys. This boy comes from a wealthy district and from a beau tiful but Christless. home. What an opportunity to help boys living in an environment such as this! Jesus’ Workshop Did you ever linger at the door of the carpenter shop of Jesus of Nazareth? Dr. Patterson Smyth says: “I like to think that children were not discouraged from coming into that work shop amongst the shavings. They liked Jesus. He was in favor with God and men, says the Gospel. We are sure He whs in favor with children. We know that Jesus loved to have children about Him. Doubtless He had the habit of telling them stories for He was always telling stories in His later life, and we can hardly believe that He never did it before. Surely the children learned from the stories in that shop more of God’s love and care than from all the r e 1 ig i o u s teaching of the synagogue school.” The Saddest Stroke “I f ye be without chastisement * * then ye are not Sons." (Heb. 12:8). “Woe, woe to that.soul that God will not spend a rod. upon! This is the saddest stroke of all, when God refuses to strike at all. ‘No one,’ said one, ‘seems more unhappy to me than he to whom no' adversity has happened.” ’
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