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than all the previous years of my life. I am happy in telling others about the love of Christ for lost men.” “I shall go on trusting in God, and I know that He will not desert me, but will give me strength to bear whatever burdens may come to me,” writes a prisoner who a short time ago found Christ to be his Saviour. “I like my cell, for I study God’s word
and talk to Him there,” is the testimony of another. One prisoner had his lawyer send me $10 with which to have Bible study outlines printed for the class. He has had great quantities of sound religious literature sent to friends on "the outside. Please be pray ing for these saints in prison, and for those who are not saints, and for your representa tive.
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WORK IN PACIFIC COAST HARBORS
Oscar Zimmermann, Supt.
A FTER several years of stervice, there are some things that loom up as espe cially desirable, one of these things being the need for a Japanese translation of the “Way to God,” by D. L. Moody. God’s marked blessing has rested upon this book, to the conversion of countless souls, and the printing of it in the Japanese language would without doubt mean a large return from the investment of the $100 or $200 needed. An ever-increasing number of eager men would carry the message to the homes of thousands in Japan. We doubt if there is a like opportunity to give a whole nation a book which would mean such a harvest for God.' Pray with us, arid share with us in the need and the harvest. In»these war times, and in view of the fact that “the time is short,” "there is no place of Christian service where the need seems greater for giving out the Gospel and the Word of God, than in the work on the ships. On one vessel which had escaped thé perils of the war zone, the worker was shown a so-called “submarine belt,” or rather “submarine jacket,” a safety device used in these days by crews traversing the war zone. The officer showing this devicé was-not a Christian, but as the conversation was turned to Christ and the safety of the soul, he accepted Christ. A few weeks
later this ship was sunk. Whether 6r not saved from the sea, we feel sure that this man was saved from sin, and found that, indeed, the time was short. On the same vessel a number of India men were reached through the Gospel in print, some hearing the Gospel for the first time. On a certain afternoon this month a naval vessel was boarded in San Francisco Bay, and exceptional courtesy was shown the worker by the officer of the deck in charge of the vessel. Shortly to depart to the Alaskan Coast to remain there for seven months, the crew received the books and Scriptures gladly. After several inter views with .young men, a Filipino was found who said that he was a Christian, saying that the reading of a Bible before his conversion kept him from killing his own wife. “Just as I was ready to shoot her in my anger, I thought of what Jesus said, and words I heard at a mission came to me and prevented me from becoming a murderer.” He said he became another man after that and read the Bible regularly. A Scotchman not over 25 years old was found lying in his bunk, having in his pos session, as did the others, a New Testament given him by the British Bible and Tract Society. Coming from the war zone, this man accepted Christ, the worker having
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