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Believe, and keep right on believing.” We were telling this experience the fol lowing week in one of our meetings, and at the close two men stepped up and told us that was just their difficulty. It cer tainly was an added joy to be able, to tejl them that faith in Christ alone can save, and to hear from the lips of these men their faith in His finished work. May I just add, by way of encourage ment to those who have taken this shop work upon their hearts; that God is most graciously hearing and answering prayer on our behalf, and that from all these shops and barns we are gathering out, one by one, those who believe and receive. come, and the Bible Woman visited her and tried to make things plain. She would not accept Christ at first, though she .really wanted to be saved, for she was under deep conviction. Finally, however, she accepted Christ and confessed Him in the class, but there was no joy, only a very little more light. She did begin to see some things in His Word, however. Then vacation came. When the class was resumed in the fall, she wasn’t there, and not until after several weeks did she come back, but as soon as we saw her we knew there had been a change. She had been reading the Word. Another Bible Woman had prayer with her, and now her testimony for Christ was out spoken and clear. She was anxious now for the conversion of her husband, so the Bible Woman went to their home one even ing to talk with him. God opened his heart and he received Jesus Christ as his Saviour and Lord. Next week he phoned the good news to his sister—the backslider of ten years before—and the following Sab bath morning, around the breakfast table, he and his wife led a younger brother and his chum to Christ.
then someone started that dear old hymn, “Happy Day, When Jesus Washed My Sins Away,”' and in a few minutes the great, choking sobs came, and looking through his tears with eyes shining, he grasped my hand. “Well, how about those feelings now?” we asked. “Oh, I’ve been putting feelings before facts, but now I know, on the testimony of God’s Word, that I’m saved, and I feel happy because of that grand fact.” • “Believe, and the feeling may come or may go, Believe in the Word that was writterr to show T h a t,all who believe their salvation may know; H ERE is a wonderful story of one fam ily: Perhaps ten years ago, a young girl whose heart God had touched, was used by Him to reclaim one of His dear children who had wandered far away, and who was the mother of two little boys—her husband an unbeliever. A year ago, one of our Bible Women renewed the acquaintance of tiie mother, at a time of peculiarly sore and heavy trial, longing to bring comfort and help if possible. The family had lost everything by fire, and they now had no Bible. The Bible Woman brought a Sco field Bible and continued her visit to the home. One Sabbath afternoon the husband’s mother, a backslider, came back to the Lord, and the two little boys above men tioned—now in their teens—accepted Christ. Then the Bible Woman was given a Bible class in the neighborhood, which the mother of the two boys began to attend. Soon she brought a sister-in-law. The Bible was unintelligible to her, she said, and she could see no use in attending the class as she didn’t get anything out of it. But the sister kept praying and inviting her to
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