THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S penance they call “spiritual exercises” but in reality they are “corporal exer cises”, which Paul says are of little profit. He said he had to heat himself till the blood flowed down his hack. Why did he submit himself to such a voluntary punishment? Was it because he had knowledge? No, indeed, it was ignorance, and can you not see how the Romanists are destroyed (lost) for lack of knowledge? After relating to me the above he said, “Praise God X do not have to shed my blood any more. Christ shed His for me and carried all my sins away.” We wish you could see the joy depicted in his face. Another Mexican standing by and hearing his testimony then and there confessed Christ by ac cepting Him as His Saviour. In another Camp a woman accepted Christ as her Saviour. At first her hus band was not interested but recently he with eight others gladly accepted Christ. As there were other women in the Camp we asked this woman why they did not come to the meeting and she said she was looked down upon and they called her a heretic and would have nothing to do with her, hut, thank God, neither she nor her husband were dis couraged and both asked for baptism. On returning at another time to this Camp to instruct the new converts while some were testifying to their new-found joy, three other men accepted the Xjord on the spot. Thus we have a goodly number for a Bible Class which we have already organized. Let me beg your prayers that God would thrust out more laborers and also provide the means for such as He may calk Will any who are interested in the Spanish work communicate with Rev. T. C. Horton, and thus help us to reach some of the 150,000 Mexicans of Southern California.—.Robert H. Bend er, Supt.
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Blessing in Personal Work The past six weeks we have been do ing considerable personal work on the outside, visiting Lost Hills, Belridge, and other destitute places THE OIL where the Gospel is never FIELDS heard unless we take it to them. God has greatly blessed us in personal work. To knock at the door and give out the Word affords the greatest op portunity to learn the condition of the people and to give them God’s Word, and often one can see the Holy Spirit bless the word spoken. We found a lady some time ago in making a house to house canvass who had been led to consider her condition before God through reading a little tract previously left at her house, and the Holy Spirit had led her to see her self as a lost sinner without Christ. There in her own room with no other person present, she had wrestled with her doubts and had finally taken the Lord Jesus as her Saviour, yet she had not “peace with God”. We read to her Romans 4:25: “Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.” Ephesians 2:8. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works lest any man should boast.” Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,” and other Scripture without avail. Finally we made her read Ro mans 5:1 for herself personally and she read it slowly and prayerfully: “There fore being justified by faith, ■¡V have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.’k The Holy Spirit applied the Word and she saw that the peace Christ had made through the blood of His cross was hers now and forever. “The entrance of Thy Word giveth light.” We left her trust ing in the never failing Word of our God.”
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