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March 1926
to the Lord. I wish you could have heard their testimonies. One girl praised God for Euodia. Another praised Him for the Bible. One who had accepted Christ and seemed so enthusiastic, Said: "I must tell the girl next door to me. She ought to be in a Club like this for she doesn’t know anything about these things.” In the other class, the situation was entirely different, for the class was well organized and a goodly number of girls attended the first session. After the first two meetings, circum stances made it necessary to find an other place for the class, and another home was opened to us. From there we moved to a church. Every week found the class growing smaller and smaller. One evening, as I left the class, I passed by the home where we had at first met, and spoke to the hostess. She inquired as to our welfare andJ told her that since we had left herhbme, the class had liter ally "gone to pieces.” Then, to my surprise, she offered to let us returil and I went away feeling very happy and thanking the Lord, for it was all in answer to prayer. However, it seemed hard to build the class up again after making so many changes, and three weeks ago only three girls came. Thdn the next week, five girls were present— two of them being new and seeming to be real leaders. This was really encour aging and we felt that the Lord would use these new girls to build up the class. This last week, imagine my amaze ment, to find sixteen girls in a circle, as quiet as mice and ready for the les son. We had a blessed time together and three of the girls accepted Christ and three others came.back to Him. Their praise, prayers and testimonies were an inspiration, especially when they sang "Standing on the Promises of God.” Pray for the Euodia work— that the girls may know Him, that they may grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ, and that His will may be done in each life. Also, for the teach ers that God may speak through us. Truly, "He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.” Praise His Name! “ I F YE ASK— I WILL DO” We have a conversion to tell you of that certainly glorifies the abounding grace and long suffering mercy of our God. It has certainly strengthened our faith in the God who works when we pray. “ If ye ask— I will do *** When ye pray, believe that ye shall receive— and ye shall have” (Mark 11:24). Some eighteen months or so ago, we were asked, as a Bible -Class, to pray for the husband of one of our
prayer, heard and responded to the urge of her Divine leader and L’ord. A girl accepted Christ so gladly at one Club meeting. All her life she had wanted to be saved but did not know how. Away from home, she drifted rapidly with the world. Fin ally she went to live at a home where several Christian girls boarded. She saw they had something that made them happy and the old longing re turned to her to know God, but no one spoke to her to tell her the way. One day a Lyceum girl invited her to a Club meeting and at the first invita tion she came to Him and after an earnest talk with the leader over the open Book, went home rejoicing in the knowledge of sins forgiven. How many may we be touching daily who want to know Him and nobody tells them of Jesus! “ SOMETHING FROM NOTHING” One teacher of Euodia classes gives the following testimony: "The Lord has certainly been bless ing in the work and I now have two classes of Intermediate girls. In one of these classes the Lord has literally made "something” out of "nothing,” for the first two trips I made out to the neighborhood not a single girl came. The third time, just one girl came. We talked over the situation and she promised to come herself the following week and bring another girl I took the list of names that had been given me and decided to spend the balance of the afternoon calling. One girl upon whom' I called was ill, another had moved away, another was in quarantine. Finally one girl was found at-home who seemed interested and promised to come. Met her mother and grandmother who were Christians and said they would pray for the work. The following week five girls at tended the class. Since then t-Jie Lord has sent in seven more girls and this week, when the invitation was given, seven 'girls accepted Christ, and one girl who had drifted away came back
BIBLE WOMEN’S WORK ■Mrs. L y m a n Stewart, Sunt.— 'Twenty-five Women Engaged in House to House Personal Work, Bible Classes and Soul Winning Clubs. FOUR YEARS OF BLESSING
S we have been celebrating the fourth anniversary of the founding of the Eteri Clubs, we look back with great joy as we see how God
has led and blessed In the transform ing of lives and the far reaching in fluence of the Club among many young women. One minister, coming to a new field, said he wondered what made the young people so much more spiritual and active in the new church than in the fields where he had labored before, and soon learned it was the result of the Eteri Club and its work among the girls. One evangelist said the two outstanding impressions he was taking back from his first visit to the Pacific Coast were the spiritu ality of the C. E. out here and the Eteri Club movement,, which he felt was so fully meeting the present day need of young women that he was hoping to interest ministers of the eaBt in starting such a work among their young people. We are grateful for the co-operation of the school teachers, many of whom have come to thank the leaders for Club influences which are helping to solve grave problems among young people today, for the Eteri Club is a place where High School girls over fifteen years of age and their teachers meet and are drawn closer together as they gain a spiritual understanding of one another. One teacher said, "This is the thing that is doing the most to solve our problems in the schoolroom and I, for one, am going to put myself heart and soul into it." She has not missed a meeting since but brings new girls each week and is making her life count for Him in a wonderful way. One teacher attended a Club occas ionally while a University student but did not appear greatly interested. She was an exceptionally talented girl and the leader felt a real burden of prayer that she might yield her life for the Lord’s service. The girl graduated and went away to teach and the leader lost sight of her for some time, but continued to pray for her. After many months the girl appeared again at the Eteri Club in the town where she was then teaching and became an earnest worker in the Club. Before long she came to the leader to say she had ex pected to teach school all her life but now knew this was to be her last year as the Lord was showing He wanted ' her to go to the Bible Institute for training and 50 out in His service. Without being once approached by the human leader, she had, in answer to
HINDRANCES TO PRAYER To graduate in the school of prayer is to master the who’ie course of a -religious life. The first and last stages of holy liv ing are crowned wi(h praying. It is a life trade. The hind rances of p r a y e r are the hindrances in a holy life. The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness and salvation. — E. M. Bounds.
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