King's Business - 1912-01

sad and unhappy. We said, "Do n 't you expect to allow Christ at sometime to enter your heart and save your soul 1 " " Yes ' ' he owned. Then, said I,' "Why not now?" " I will," he replied, and broke down completely, and yielded himself to the Savior. About a month or so ago he died in Arizona. His wife, who is not yet a Christian, s a y s , ' "I hope when I come to

die 1 can have the peace he h a d ." He went to bed at night, and when she came to see him in the morning he had passed away to be with Him Whom to know aright is life eternal. I saw the widow last week and as I left her, with tears in her eyes, she said, " I will try to serve Him. " I think she has made her decision since. "

R. C. Lewis

One evening in July while conducting p r a y for me that God might make some- a meeting in the Mission where there were thing of me ." It is needless to say that few present, I was led to request all to w i t h rejoicing we pointed him to Jesus join in a season of prayer. On our knees t h e M i g h t y t o s a v e - we prayed that God would in His own G o d £ r a c i o u s V saved him, then he gave way bring in the unsaved, then closed ¡ f e ^ S t o His saving Grace and added i . I t h e se words: "Ten days ago I was walk- the prayer by reminding the Lord of the i n g d o w n a s t r e e t i n / o r t l f w e s t P a s a d e n a faithful workers coming down night after and picked up a Red Letter tract. After night for over three years witnessing for reading it I was so impressed that I took Him in the hearing of the great numbers U t o m y w i f e f o r h e r t o r e a d - s h e said it of men who stand in front of the Pool f ° d & n d S p ° k e t 0 m e ^ ^ g i n g l y , Room and Restaurant, some of whom have + * " T * t 0 W n t 0 m y r °° m - left the ranks of their pals and joined i f t 0 ^ b u t C0Uld not > a n d h a v e n o t the band of God's children in witnessing i F f J p t s l n e e ' b u t t o d r o w n m y '«,1- for Him, and again how the ranks have ^ b e e n d r i n k i n « heavily "until I been thinned out by sudden deaths. Many / ^ ^ ? I ** H ° W G ° d have scoffed and jeered, but are now spend- ) & ^ ^ P r a i s e H i s N a m e ! " A f t e r ing an endless eternity without hope and T ^ T " * * . W ® f ° U n d t h a t h e h a d without God, having rejected His love P Up t h e V M y S a m e t r a c t t h e l e a d e r mercy and grace. But we beseeched Him . M f a " f r 0 m t h e n u m b e r h e ear- to draw the ones who were taking the T * t * W ° r k 6 r t 0 d i s t r i b u t e ' a n d I j places of others. We arose from onr knees . UP * p r a y 6 r t h a t G o d W o u l d U8e J t Standing before the leader was a man 688 S ° m e d e a r s i n " b I a o k soul, who had heard the closing prayer from the N o t o f t e n h a s the tract distributer the outside and had walked up the aisle and •' oy o f l e a d i n g t o Christ the one whom God was standing before the altar. With tears i n H i s P r o v i d e n e e h a s led to pick up the streaming down his face he said, "Sa y, t r a e t - " He that winneth souls is wise " the Pool Room making light of religion, "They that be wise shall shine as the but I knew better all the time, and now brightness of the firmament; and they that do you think God can do anything for me? turn many to righteousness, as the stars I have been separated from my wife., She for ever and ever.?' " H e that converteth could not live with me because of my a sinner from his way, shall save a soul drinking. She is a good Christian wo- from death and shall hide a multitude of man, but I made our house a hell. So sins." that prayer hit me. I am one of those fel- lows who has been standing in front of

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