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THE KING’S BUSINESS
of these Bibles is $1.50, and if any of the readers of T he K ing ’ s B usiness feel led to send the price of one or more, for this purpose, they will be judiciously placed, and will be deeply appreciated. Remember this class as one that needs definite prayer, both for its teacher (one of the prisoners) and for the men who are studying, for a prison is not the easiest place in the world in which to do definite Bible study. The development of the work at San Quentin is steady, new men being constantly added as the older ones are paroled or dis charged. The members of the class are do ing missionary work all the time, seeking to get the new men interested in Christ and the message^ in God’s Word. It has been the writer’s privilege to lead many new men to Christ during the past few months, using the time from his arrival at the prison at noon until two o’clock to deal with inquirers. Members of the class find many ways of helping. For instance, one who is somewhat of an artist, prints cards with a pencil, pass ing them to the men in the yard who seem, as he says, “to be downcast.” In many cases, men can be touched with the Gospel when they first come in, who after a few months will not listen so readily. The following letter was just lately re ceived from a physician who had been in the prison for quite a long sentence, and
whom it was the privilege of the writer to lead to Christ: “D ear B rother : —In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. As this will be my last meeting in San Quentin, I thought it my duty to write and let you know the esteem in which I hold you. When I first came into your class I came through curiosity, but thé interest you seemed to take in us poor outcasts stirred my heart, and you have become endeared to me. As I attended from time to time the way be came brighter and brighter, until I could not afford to lose one of your meetings. I could, not see why you, a Bible teacher, would spend your valuable time trying to teach a lot of old ‘Cons,’ and so my in terest increased, until the Bible became an open book to me. “Now as our ways lead apart, and my way leads out into the world, I will be a bet ter man for having known you. You have fulfilled the Master’s command to ‘go out and preach the gospel (love) to every crea ture,’ and to ‘Go and preach to those in prison,’ and as I continue to study the Bible along the lines you have taught me, I shall remember you in prayer that God will give you souls for your hire. May God bless you is the prayer and desire of your brother, in His Name.”
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WORK IN THE OIL FIELDS R. C. Isbell, Supt.
A FTER closing our work at Coalinga, we made a hurried trip to the Kern River field, from whence we had received a Mace donian call, “Come over and help us.” We preached the same old Gospel that Paul proclaimed, and have had blessed results. A large number have joined the church by con fession of faith; church letters have been sent for, and the “family altar” has been es tablished in several homes. It fell to us to expose the “Seventh Dayists,” and while
we would rather preach the Gospel we could not see anything else to do under the cir cumstances. So we began at the year 1843 and followed them in their false teachings. They tried to spoil the meeting by inter rupting, but only to their own harm, as about all but two families have renounced the doctrine and refused to have anything more to do with them. We could tell many blessed incidents in connection with our meetings in this field:
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