Evangelistic Department INTERESTING STORIES from REAL EXPERIENCE A S T O L D BY B I BLE I N S T I T U T E WO R K E R S
room like a caged animal. When all the other members of the class had left, he sat down and told the worker the story of his life. It was the story of an ill-advised marriage, a broken home, and a divorce complaint. The disgrace of it all, the consciousness of guilt and sin, the un happiness and misery involved, had made him desperate. In his extremity he was blindly grop ing after God, and should he find no ease for his burdened soul, it was his intention to take his own life. He would have done so the night previous hut had no weapon. He said that although he was a Jew he bad not followed the Jewish reli gion since he was a young lad. He had lived among Gentile people so long that he was not at all opposed to Christian- itv -nd when Jesus was pointed out to him as the Friend of sinners, it was good news to him indeed. It seemed almost too good to be true, that through simple faith in Jesus Christ he could find forgiveness of sins and peace of heart and conscience; and, broken in body and in spirit, he presented himself to the One Who said: ■wim that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out.” SHOP WORK SHOP WORK, Marion H. Reynolds, Su perintendent. Thirty-two meetings are being held each week in the various shops, factories, car-barns and engine houses of the city, in addition to which the superintendent of the work visits many of the men in their homes. i gaif w, im1 H ! YING in a little room not many blocks from the Institute is a man who for the past twenty |years has been working in one 'o f the downtown shops in the city. For over a month he has been unable to leave his room. The doctors say it will be impossible for him to live a month longer, as he is slowly dying from cancer of the stomach. Several months ago we were per mitted to enter the shop where he
JEWISH WORK JEWISH WORK, James A. Vaus, Super intendent. We haye a Jewish home where Bible classes are held for adults and children and interviews are had with Jewish inquirers. Street meetings are also conducted, and a public meeting is held twice each month in the Institute auditorium. H UR Jewish Bible Class, which meets every Tuesday evening in the Mission Home and which is largely made up of our Jewish converts, is proving not only profitable in the way of much needed Bible instruction, but also very fruitful in the way of conversions. Although this Class has been in ses sion only a few months, yet the interest and attendance have been unusually good. These young converts are bend ing every effort to reach their fellow Jews for Christ, and many unconverted Jews are invited to attend the Class. Out of the number of unconverted Jews who have attended this Class, four have already accepted Jesus Christ as their Messiah. Thanks to a Stenographer’s Faithfulness The following story of the conversion of a Jew is an illustration of the neces sity of faithfulness on the part of God’s workers, rain or shine. One rainy Tuesday an elderly Jew ish man called to see the Superintend ent of the Jewish Department. The worker was out at the time but the stenographer, a Christian worker, knowing the man was unconverted, urged him to attend the Jewish Bible Class that same evening at the Mis sion Home. In spite of the heavy rain some ten or twelve members of the Class were present that evening and among them was this unconverted Jewish man. The teacher’s attention was drawn toward this man who appeared to be laboring under some great mental strain. He was very nervous and at times almost hysterical. When the Class was dismissed, while waiting for an opportunity to speak to the teacher, he paced hack and forth across the
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