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THE KING’S BUSINESS
Just before the meeting was dismissed the hymn, “Almost Persuaded,” was announced, but owing to some slight change in the program was not sung. Afterward a young Jewess, who had been an attentive listener to the speaker’s message, said to one of the workers : “Do you know when they gave out that hymn, ‘Almost Persuaded,’ I thought, as I glanced at the words, how much like that I am.” After repeated urg ing on the part of the workers, she became altogether persuaded. Those who still lingered after the meetings were asked to gather around and hear something that she had to tell. How our hearts rejoiced as we listened to the sweetest music in the world, the first words of a new-born soul. Mrs. Blank was very bitter against all the teachings of Christianity, and her hus band, who had becotne a Christian, was the object of the most awful curses she could think of. Bible after Bible of his she had taken and committed to the flames. In spite of all this, the husband (who had been for a time a student at the Moody Bible Institute) kept sweet and patient, and “when he was reviled, reviled not | -----------O TVT OST trying circumstances often sur- . round wives and mothers in the homes, these days. The following is but a sample: A hungry-hearted woman was found one day and led to the Lord, in our house-to-house visiting. The husband was so against anything religious that if she attended any services on Sunday he would go off and be gone all day, often drinking. For good reasons, she could not attend any Bible class, so it seemed that she was cut off from all outside help. The worker felt led to visit her frequently, sometimes wondering just how much good it was really doing, until one day the lady said:
again,” and in due time his patience and faithfulness was rewarded by hearing from the lips of his wife that the one she had so long rejected, she had at last received. True it is that a life speaks a message that is compelling in its power. A man was confined to the hospital with that most dread disease, tuberculosis. When a Christian worker visited him he seemed to take pleasure in ridiculing and scoffing at the claims of Christianity. Prayer was offered in his behalf again and again, until one day the worker found that a great change had been iwrought in his attitude toward Christianity. He became very much interested and asked all sorts of questions, finally opening his poor, sin-' sick heart to the Great Physician, who alone is able to cure that universal heart- disease called sin. Without our knowledge, this young man died, but not before he had testified to the men on the cots- around him. The Jewish authorities refused to allow him to be buried in a Jewish Cemetery, no doubt because of the fact that he had died in the Christian faith. Pray for God’s blessing on the work among the Jews.
WORK OF THE BIBLE WOMEN
Mrs. T. C. Horton, Supt.
“You can never know what these visits and your holding on to me, has meant in my life. It seems to be the one thing that has firmly established me in Him.” In another instance, the Bible woman found that the lady upon whom she had gone to call was away from home, but the daughter was there. It was found, upon conversation, that this young woman, while a member of a Sunday School and an attendant on the church service, had grown to young womanhood without accepting Jesus as her Saviour and King. After a long conversation, she professed to accept Him. It was done in such a quiet way,
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