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Striking Stories of God’s Workings GATHERED THIS MONTH FROM BIOLA WORKERS
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A Glimpse of Euodia Work f CJODIA is an organization fostered by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles to reach high-school girls with definite Bible study, and then by God’s grace to lead them to accept Christ as their own personal Saviour. The year just closed has been one of the most fruitful in the history o f the work. Recently all the d if ferent classes of high-school girls were brought together. The Gospel was earnestly presented to them and an oppor tunity given to confess Jesus Christ. God gave a blessed harvest. This work is being done the year around by faith ful and efficient teachers, and then on special occasions reaping times are arranged and the teachers rejoice to gether in the number of girls who are accepting Christ and yielding themselves for His service. At a Euodia conference some weeks ago, the girls were alone for three days. It was a wonderful season. God manifested His power in a remarkable way. Twenty- eight girls surrendered their lives to Christ in a recent meeting when they were addressed by Dr. John McNeill. One girl had been very hard to reach. Her teacher in school said if that girl could be reached, many others could be won. The girls almost dragged her to the meetings. A Testament was being given as a prize to the girl who would come eight times. She coveted that Testament and came eight weeks in succession. She was getting the Word of God each time. At the last moment she went out alone. Her mother did not know, her teacher did not know, the reason, and they were disappointed. The last Sunday she was the first girl to go forward and give her heart to Christ. Is This What They Mean by Conversion ? The Eteri Club differs from the Euodia work in that it is composed of young business women. One evening, not long since, the Eteri teacher had closed her message with a quotation: “ To every man there openeth a high way and a low. And every man decideth the way his soul shall go.” A fter the meeting a girl approached the teacher and asked: “ If you were going to choose the high way, how would you go about it?” The teacher answered: “ First o f all, you must be born again.” The girl asked, “ What do you mean by that, and by being ‘saved’ ?” The teacher, using John 1:12, pointed out the way.' The teacher prayed and asked the girl to pray with her. The girl exclaimed: “ I feel such a stranger to the L o rd ; will you tell me what to say ?” She was instructed, and prayed. Afterward she said: “ I feel like a different person. I did not know it could do that to you. Tell me— is that what they mean by being converted?” The teacher replied that it was and the girl said, “ Oh, I wish I had known that before!” Many are brought into Eteri meetings from homes where Christ is not known. . Recently a banquet was held for mothers and daughters. Fifty per cent of the mothers
who came admitted that they never went to church. One mother said, “ I am glad someone is interested in my daughter’s life because she cannot get it at home and will not go to church.” ;, God is continually honoring the good seed that is being sown and only eternity can reveal what the harvest shall be. How the Boys Go About Shop Work Mr. Stuchbery, superintendent of Biola Gospel Teams in the shops, reported at our last report meeting that he had sixty young men students engaged under him in shop work. Just before noon three busses might be seen out side the Institute. The boys come from the classrooms, jump into the busses assigned to them, and off they go. In the providence of God no accident has ever occurred although some of the factories are seven and eight miles distant from the Institute and must be reached promptly. Reaching the shops, the boys bow their heads in prayer before leaving the busses. The workers are armed with selected tracts. Two or three thousand a week are handed to working men as the students shake the hands o f the men. There are many aching hearts out there. Opening up the portable organ, the meeting is started with old songs like “ What a Friend W e Have in Jesus.” The boys drift around through the crowd, where the men are eating from their dinner pails. They are invited to gather around and enjoy the meeting. A ten-minute talk, straight from the shoulder, is given, making the way of salvation plain. Going into the homes of the men, they often find them sick or even on deathbeds and point the way of salvation to them. Our workers also visit the men in the hospitals. At the First Baptist Church, San Bernardino, Mr. Stuchbery recently met a man who said: “ I thank God for the Bible Institute Shop Department.” He related how his little girl was about to be operated on in the Santa Fe Hospital. It was a serious operation. Some of the boys went to the hospital and there met the anxious father. There in the hallway of the hospital a word o f prayer was offered for the little girl. It seemed as though a burden was lifted. The little girl had a remarkable recovery. Later, when the father was telling about it, he said, “ Those boys from the Bible Institute do not care where they pray; they prayed right in the midst of the nurses and doctors, running to and fro in the halls, but God heard them.” What a B. I. Student Does When in Jail Mr. Ellis, one o f our day students, recently gave at a report meeting, a glimpse o f the practical work he has been able to do in the Los Angeles jails. “ It has been my privilege,” he said, "to go to the Lin coln Heights and County Jails every Sunday. I meet hardened men. Many of these men want to know the Lord. They have time to think about their undone con dition. I found a man a few days ago in a dope cell. The ‘dope squad’ places those addicted to this habit in cer tain cells. I asked this man if he believed in the Bible. He said, ‘Yes.’ It is strange to hear a man in prison say that so promptly. I inquired: ‘Are you sure you believe
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