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face, we remembered his words, “ I’ll stick to Jesus, if I have to die,” Praise God, he didn’t have to die. God opened up a door, he mad,e good and came back to return thanks. His testimony was giv en before^ a group of other lads among whom, was one who only a week before had almost been tempted to take his own life. (We are running across so many in these days in like desperate state.) This lad admitted that he had a direct passport to hell. He is now reading the Word and we have occasion to believe the light is coming into his dark soul. Still another in that group had been a woe-begone, frowsy down-and-out un til a week ago one of our boys brought him in with the familiar, ^‘ This man has just confessed Christ.” The writer was very skeptical but our lack of faith was rbbuked by the wonderful change one single week produced in his exter nal appearance. A Young Woman’s Influence Just the night before, a fine-looking young man came into Biola Hall. Def inite work was done with him, which resulted in an acceptance of Christ and a stepping out into a clear, intelligent belief. Speaking of the beautiful young woman he was engaged to, he said it was her consistent and simple faith in Christ which had awakened a hunger for that same Saviour in his own life. His joy in anticipation of her joy when he should tell her the good news was beautiful to witness. These are just a few incidents in a month crowded with blessed experience of His wonderful grace. “ Occupy till I come.” JEWISH WORK James A. Vans, Superintendent w e have a Jewish home where Bible classes are held for adults and children and interviews are had with Jewish in quirers. Street meetings are also con ducted, and a public meeting is held tw ice each month in the Institute auditorium. EWISH missionaries are not often permitted to see a Jewess converted who has reached the advanced age of seventy years or more, but of late such an in cident actually occurred. Ordinarily a Jewess of that age would be found quite orthodox and very much prejudiced against Christianity, but whatever pre judice the Jewess of whom I am going to speak, may have entertained, had been dispelled by contact with Chris
tians. Hobbling to the door with the assistance of her cane, she admitted, her two Hebrew-Christian visitors to a small, dimly-lighted room. As she sat there looking out of the window, she presented a pitiful picture— poor, worn and old, broken in body and spirit and alone in the world, without friends, without relatives and without God. Her children had all died with the excep tion of one son and she was entirely ignorant of his whereabouts. Some body’s mother she was and an object of God’s tender compassion for He put some of His children in touch with her, who in turn asked some of the Jewish workers to call on her. God’s Plan Unfolded As God’s plan of salvation was un folded to her from a Jewish point of view, in the Old and New Testaments, she seemed to receive it gladly as “ good news from a far country.” When it came to the question of atonement, she was different from the ordinary Jew who is very self-righteous. It seemed to her too good to be true that God could and would save her from the consequences of her sin through sim ply believing that Jesus, the Messiah, died as a Substitute and a sacrifice for her. “ Oh,” she said, “ I have been such a wicked person.” It was pointed out to her that though “ your sins be as scar let, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall" be as wool'.” After some further conversation she was invited to attend our Hebrew-Christian Banquet, and gladly accepted the invitation. Then one of the workers, turning to her, said, “ There is another and much more im portant invitation that I wish you would accept also, and that is an invitation from the King of kings and Lord of lords, and He says, ‘Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.’ ” She was deeply moved by this gracious invitation, and conscious of her own great need, and with the tears streaming down her face, she accepted that invitation also. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS A lady once made a complaint to Frederick the Great, king of Prussia. “ Your majesty,” said she, “ my husband treats me badly.” “ That is not my business,” replied the king. “ But he speaks ill of you.” “ That,” replied he, “ is none of your business.”
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