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save me, and I took Christ into my heart.’ The Lord Jesus, is in me now and He will keep me here on this ship as well as any place else.” It was a privilege to hear him utter words of faith and assurance of salvation. He said, “This is the first time this hand ever held a Testament. I cursed at missionaries and would not have any thing to do with them. I lived a bad life all my life, but I turn to God now.” •Four or five days later he was found testifying to others and in a winning way made ever the other men to respect him, as he tried to win them’ to his Lord. Does God work miracles today? He does. Pray that many others may come to know Him on that ship .—Oscar Zimmerman, Superintendent. the Oil Fields We feel that he has started a great work among us.— H. R. Phillips. T h e o il f ie l d workers are high and dry— but oh you rains! It has rained every day since we left Los Angeles in the fore part of January. The work at McKittrick was greatly handicapped. W e held but few services. I found an old friend, Rev. Bro. Amis, in the work at McKittrick. They have had no church organization as yet but he is hopeful of starting a Methodist church. W e had talked to the people and a general interest was expressed but the time we set for organization it was pouring rain and kept it up. Those who were not Methodists were coming in on an affiliated membership plan. Perhaps the interest we stirred up will hold until the weather set tles, then the organization can be perfected. At this writing we are beginning in Olig. The folks here have made quite a prepara tion for our coming in making new seats and getting the building ready. It is still raining and snowing. So we may camp here until the clouds roll by. Our road ahead is awful. Our only hope is that it may dry out. W e will give Olig extra time while the way clears ahead .— Yours in hope, Sloan and Lines.
saint. Mr. F------ and another man raised their hands as the invitation was given in the meeting. God, through the testimony of one of the workers, brought conviction of sin and Mr. F------was saved. He took sick at the close of the meeting and was found later on in his cabin by the workers. He was lying on his back and speaking seemed hard for him, but a ray of sun shine stole over his weather-beaten face and Without.hesitation he said, as he held up his Testament he was reading, “ I found the passage you spoke on tonight. I read it over again. I am very sick and have been right along the last few days. To night as Mr. M;------ gave his testimony I said to myself, ‘If God saved him, he can Letters from T h e R ev . W il l ia m S l o a n , the oil fields evangelist, and his singer, Mr. John L. Lines, held services at the Olig school house from January 26th to February 6 th, in clusive. The community has taken a great amount of interest in the services, and at each meeting, a good sized crowd was pres ent to listen to Mr. Sloan give his simple talk on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The people of this district admire very much the manner in which Mr. Sloan makes plain Christ's teachings. It was an inspiration to listen to Mr. Lines sing the sacred hymns. At the close of the last service, a special meeting was called by the men who Were interested in the work. At this meet ing, a committee of seven men were chosen to canvass the district and ascertain if there were enough men interested in the work to keep a man permanently in the field. This committee has been active only a few days, but enough money has already been pledged for each month to lead us to be lieve that we shall have no difficulty in getting a good man for the work perma nently and paying him a good salary. The people here feel deeply grateful to Mr. Sloan and to the men who have made it possible that he can carry on the work.
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