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the distributor is driving by a theater where people are in line, he finds thát if a -handful of tract packages is thrown out, there will be a scramble for them. Groups of children in school yards or on the streets will run eagerly for tracts tossed in their direction. Method of Wrapping The tracts should be folded so as to allow enough cellophane on each end to twist neatly, keeping the bundles from unrolling. Care should be exer cised to so wrap the rolls that a catchy title will' show through the cellophane. A supply of 1,000 sheets of 4x8-inches colored cellophane can be secured for $1.50, from the originator of this method of evangelism, Carleton E. Null, 3020 Broadway, Chicago, 111. What “Cellophane Tracts” Do Cellophane tracts can reach the wholly unevangelized. This method of distribution permits many to be evan gelized who might not otherwise hear of the Saviour. Cellophane tracts bring back reports. It is a blessing and encouragement to Christians to receive cards mailed by people who have accepted Christ as their Saviour. An identification initial or number on the cards indicates the person by whom they were given out Cellophane tracts let shut-ins aid in evangelism. Persons confined in their homes can use spare time in prayerfully wrapping the leaflets to be used by those in active forms of Christian wit ness. Cellophane tracts provide a satisfying group activity for Christians, young or old. The purchase apd wrapping of tracts have proved a worth-while proj ect for women’s organizations of the church. Boys and girls as well as adults can be enlisted in distributing the packages. “Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cométh harvest ? be hold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest” (John 4:35). “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labor ers into his harvest” (Matt. 9:38). BIOTA’S WORLD-WIDE PRAYER CIRCLE Learning to “lean hard” upon God, members of Biola’s World-Wide Prayer Circle , are looking to the Lord Himself to meet pressing needs of the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles. Pledged to pray for the school for a definite hour each week, these friends have enrolled to seek, at God’s hand, spiritual blessings and material supply for the school in all its relationships. Mingled with the petitions of recent months, there has been heartfelt praise for what ^the Lord has done through
the ministry of the students d u r i n g their past year of training. More than nineteen hundred professed conversions were reported by the students in this period, as a result of personal inter views, classes, and group meetings. Miss Christina J. Braskamp, Secre tary of the Prayer Circle, will welcome new members who will choose a weekly hour for prayer and will notify her at 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif. A VIEW OF GOD THROUGH OUR GREAT TELESCOPES [Continued from page 336] it was another system like our own having within itself about another 10,- 000,000,000 stars. Let us try to form some picture of this neighbor of ours. Light travels 186.000 miles a second, or more than 7 times the distance around the earth each second. This nebula, in Andromeda is so far away that it takes light nearly 1,000,000 years to travel from there to us. You know that that is a very long way. To help picture the distance, sup pose every man; woman, and child in the United States had a library of 50.000 volumes, and suppose you col lected all of these books and started toward the nebula (or island universe as it, or others like it, is more accur ately called). Suppose the first word of the first book is “the.” Place “t” on the first mile, “h” on the second mile, “e” on the third, and use the blank between this and the next word for the fourth mile. Then start on the second word and continue traveling toward this nebula of Andromeda, plac ing pne letter on each mile. Before you reach your destination, you -will have used up all of the letters of all the books of all the libraries and will have to call for more. My God spanned this great distance and ;created this neighboring universe as well as our own. The 100-inch telescope since that first discovery has reached out farther and farther until it has found new universes as much as 600 times as far away as our first neighbor universe or at a dis tance of 600,000,000 light years. • - It has been found that, instead of there being just one universe of stars (great suns) as we first thought, there are at least 2,000,000,000 universes, of about the same size as our own, all within the range of this telescope. And thus our vision of what God did when He created the heavens grows. Certainly ,we can trust such a God. The 200-Inch Telescope What will this new telescope do? What new things will it reveal to us? No man knows. If we knew, it would not be necessary to build it. We had no idea what the 100-inch one would
• ing with the oil worker about “God’s plan of free salvation through Jesus Christ,” the subject about which the man requested information. Not long ago, as the writer passed an exclusive Santa Monica beach club, some well-dressed businessmen were waiting to cross the highway. Tracts were thrown to them. At first the men hesitated, but they were attracted by the bright novelty of the tracts as the little bundles glistened in the sunlight. . As it was not April % they picked them up—curiosity had overcome propriety. One of the men was a Jew. the own er of a store, and he returned thé card saying that he had read the tracts and had accepted Christ as his Saviour. “Say, Mister, could we have some of those things you have been throwing out.along the highway?” This request came after the distribu to rs car had been parked in a small town. A bundle for each person in the car was the promut renl'v given with a smile and a silent prayer. On other occasions thé same request has come while both cars were in mo tion. Adaptability One nèed not be traveling to use this method of evangelism effectively. A county official takes time each noon when he goes .out to lunch, to place bundles of tracts on top of the hedge which surrounds the courthouse. A wom an returned a card with the notation, “I found the tracts on the hedge near the courthouse. A colored man was picking up some at the same time.” A bundle left on a street car, bus, or train seat will not be long unread. Not only the hitch-hiker is reached by packages thrown from a car. When
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