THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S of scenes enacted many years ago in his own family in Japan. Hear him tell the story of his wife, who according to his word, was an earnest, devoted Christian woman who asked him often to go to church with her. In answer to your query if he was a Christian, opening his heart, he would tell you of his inability to find help in his heathen teachings and then in sad tones, “My wife doesn’t know much of the Bible,” revealing that while she was earnest and devoted she apparently was unable to lead him to Christ or to make the way plain to him. • How could he become a Christian? Is this perhaps your own story? If so, it is your duty to know how, else you will he a stumbling block to those you ought to point to Christ. Then imagine the interest of this hun gry Chief Engineer when you open the Scriptures and “preach Jesus unto' him”. We read John 5:24 to him and he listened eagerly. We made it plain and saw him sitting there in deep thought, then jumping up, he pulled the Testament out of our hand and wanted to read it himself, slowly and reaching for a red pencil, marking the passage in red, so he would know where it was. Would you not rejoice to see this man accept Christ as his Saviour and see him go back to his home “to tell what Jesus had done unto him.”—Oscar Zimmer man, Supt. M “Great Things God Hath Wrought” We do have blessed times, being “made all things to all men in order to win some;” watching, bringing up the opportunities, praying, ploughing, water ing and even now some reap- SHOP ing amid the deepening WORK apostacy. Constant rubbing shoulders with all sorts and conditions of men is a great experience, for contact is opportunity and opportu nity is responsibility. The night com- eth when no man can work, So, breth
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ren, pray for us so that we all may re joice together in that day. We were talking recently to a mining man, a keen, intelligent fellow, but all he could sec was the eccentricities of some folks who professed to love our Lord. “Now look at that poor, drivel ing kid. You’ve worked on his emo tions to such a degree that he doesn’t know what he is doing.” The lad had just received the Lord Jesus as his own personal Saviour and with broken words and faltering' tongue was trying to con fess Him before the crowd. “It’s a downright shame to have him act like that.”: In the many experiences of the fol lowing week we had entirely forgotten this incident, but a few nights ago at the close of the Fishermen’s Club meet ing, a quiet, clean-cut lad stood up and told how after leaving his home in the far west he had drifted out to Los An geles, arriving just a week previous, and wandered into a place where some fel lows were holding a Gospel meeting and how, when approached, he had received the Lord and at once had thrown away his cigarettes. He told how real Christ had become to him and the complete victory over this especial sin contracted over five years ago and constantly in dulged in without any let up, rolling and smoking them one quickly following another. The lad gave a ringing testi mony to the saving and keeping power of Christ and was so changed in his appearance that although we shook hands with him and he told of his hopes of entering the School to prepare him self for Christian service, we completely failed to recognize in him our dirty, un kempt, stammering, sobbing convert of just one week before until one of the boys assured us he was the very same lad who had incurred the indignation of the skeptic miner! With the nqte of praise in our hearts over this marvelous change there was also a note of real regret that we couldn’t rush out and discover that sneering skeptic and point
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