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business, especially when we have such a King. He looks after the results, Himself. In San Quentin, God is blessing the teach ing of the Word in a remarkable way. J. S. has been an inhabitant most of his life; two weeks ago, at the close of the Bible class, he made public his acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the consider able surprise of all who knew him, and to the surprise of any who had,seen his face— it was the face of a habitual criminal. But in the days that have passed, God has already begun His work of softening where there, had been a hardness, and of sweetening where there had been sourness, and of making joy to abound in a heart that had never before known joy. J. S. is now writes thus, from Placerville: “Many of the ybung people have given their hearts to our Lord Jesus. In one district recently where I organized a Sunday school eleven boys and girls stepped over the border line into the joy of surrender to Him. This district had been without a Sunday school for over twenty years. Two weeks ago I organized where there had never been a Sunday school and many of the children had never attended one. The people came from all over the countryside, one family driving eight miles. In the evening I preached and organized another union Sun day school in an abandoned church, where there had not been a preaching service for three or four years. “I have been very busy, having seven T3 F. STEAD, Sunday-school missionary ■ *-'•«1 the northern part of California,
doing personal work among his fellow prisoners. “One man who will be leaving the prison walls in about three months has dedicated his life and his talents, which had belonged to Satan, to Christ, and is ready to prepare for a life of special service to Him. “On Thanksgiving evening I hope to be locked up in a cell. It is a cell that con tains about twenty prisoners, but we shall doubtlessly have 125 men packed into this room, face to face with the issue of their lives. May God use the speaker and the occasion for the salvation of men. I am sure that the Bible Institute folk will be praying for their representative that even ing.” counties in my field, with vast regions as yet untouched, but I am happy when there is lots of hard work to do. What has appealed to me so strongly of late has been the way in which my Lord has taken care of the little details, and so helped me on the way—rides when I needed them most, hospitable homes when darkness had over taken me, and many other little things which very clearly did not ‘just happen so.’ “Hearts are hungry for the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in this great hill country, and what a joy it is to hold up the cross before them. The long trips in the storms of winter or heat of summer; over the lonely mountain roads and trails, many times going all day without food, all are forgotten when in some little schoolhouse, tucked away among the giant pines, young lives surrender themselves to my Lord.”
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