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own to comfort. When the worker tried to turn her eyes to the Master, she found the woman, once a Christian, bitter and hard. As she left, after a few words of prayer, she pressed into the woman’s hand a little Gospel o f John, saying, “Please read it. Perhaps God will speak to you through it.” The next visit found a different look ing woman and at the first opportunity she said, with such a glad look in her eyes, “I have read the little book you gave me twice and it’s all coming back to me. :God is so good.” W e felt constrained to call on a member of one of our Bible classes whom we sup posed to be a Christian woman. The call seemed fruitless, until a little personal re mark about her relation to her Master, as we were about to leave, caused her to burst into tears, saying, “Till I came into the class, I always felt I was all right. I joined the church at nine years of age, but the lessons have been making me so unhappy. I just cannot endure it any longer.” She was so clearly under conviction that it was only a few moments till she declared, “Oh, such a burden is lifted.’-’ The next time we saw her she said, “No doubts now, I know I am saved.” The' Bible is a new book to me now. I love to read it ana I can pray as I never did before, too.” “The entrance of Thy words giveth life; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” Psalm 119:130.
ing. The mother asked what the Bible wo man thought of M illennial Dawnism . “Oh, you know there are many false prophets in the world.” Again a question, “How can we tell who are the false ones?” One fit ting answer was 1 John 4:1-4, which the mother read, pondered and accepted as sat isfactory, after being told the real teaching of “P astor Russell. She said, “I’m glad for these tracts which make things more clear and shall take my Bible as a guide here after, and I’m very thankful your help came just now, before my friend had fully suc ceeded in turning me away from the truth.” T h e young married woman was once active in church work, but now seldom even attended church and the Word of God was wholly neglected. When a personal ques tion was put to her by the Bible woman she replied, “I do not suppose anyone can know that they are really saved till they die. I wish I did know.” After half an hour, or more of looking into God’s word about it, she looked up with a bright smile and said, with much emphasis, “Now I just kn o w I am saved and you don’t know what this visit has meant to me.” A worker sent on a special case one day found a little Southern woman and drew from her such a sad story of misfortune, sorrow, poverty and loneliness in a great city that she was helpless with words of her
The Evangelistic Extension Work George W. Hunter, Superintendent.
A /TA rch has been a good month from many viewpoints. The Lord’s bless ing has been on the work and I have been gaining the confidence of many new people, being used of God to inspire them to a more .definite Christian life, more intelligent service, and while we are permitted to wit ness some fruit bearing from the Seed sown, we shall never know the full fruition of the work until we stand at the “Judg
ment Seat of Christ,” where we shall then see and understand. T h e class started at Sacramento in Feb ruary has developed in numbers and deep interest until there are now from sixty to seventy-five each night of the cream of the young people of the churches of Sacra mento. The interest grows from week to week and expressions from the many young
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