EVANGELISTIC DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF THE MONTH’S ACTIVITIES By Bible Institute Workers T h i n g s That Grip. PRACTICAL PERSONAL WQBM. aad SOUL. SAVING 83* -83 WORK OF THE BIBLE WOMEN
Mrs. T. C. Horton, Supt.
I S there any one here who will defi nitely receive Jesus Christ as her Saviour today?” We do not often ask for a show of hands and did not intend doing so that day, meaning only to have the women make the matter personal in their own lives. We were almost dismayed when three hands were raised by women who were confined in the institution because their habits made them social menaces. One was a victim of drink, and as we talked with her afterwards we found a deep con viction of sin, not mere regret at the conse quences of sin. Week after week as the message was given to these women we saw the change in her face, and then one day she was gone—back to her husband and home. God is keeping her in her new life, and again we thank Him for the open door to these women. A lady passing through a serious mental condition is praising God that when all else failed the Word of God given her by a worker had not only quieted her but made it possible for her to sleep. Truly His Word “casteth out all fear.” A young man with whom we have been corresponding, who is facing army life, writes, “Things have cleared up. I see Jesus as my Saviour and am trusting him to work my life out in His own way.” This confession means much, as he had great plans of his own for himself. A young woman who came out very
clearly for the Lord had a great burden for souls laid upon her heart, and was asking this worker and that to call and talk with people, until one day a worker said, “Why not do it yourself?” The reply was, “O, I couldn’t.” “But the Lorcj might, through you-” So she took her first step with Him and had the joy of winning a soul for her Lord. Another lady, who had never been very sure of her own salvation, came out so wonderfully clear, through a study of the Gospel of John, that she not only became a good worker among her neighbors, but was used of God to bring her twelve-year- old boy to see Jesus, and afterwards her husband; so that now the three of them gather around the table every night for study and prayer. A young woman who had been holding a great bitterness in her heart, made a real surrender of herself to the Lord one after noon. Later she said, “Do you know, everything is so changed, and the hard feel ing I once had seems to be all gone. Has He done it?” For some time it has been the writer’s privilege to teach the Bible to women old and infirm, and some not so old but help less, in an institution provided especially for them. As the summer days came on we were asked to meet in an arbor out of doors, and during one of the lessons, look ing out, saw a little woman in a wheel chair, busy with her fingers, but listening
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