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through these pages, as another door of service has been opened to me, and it is my intention eventually to go to Africa. Will you not, therefore, in your hour alone with the Master, ask Him to have His own way with me, and when the time comes to go forth into His work in Africa, that the Lord will raise His own standards before me, open the door and thrust me out ? .
The writer takes this occasion to per sonally thank all who have been praying for the work at the Biola Club. When we get to glory and see some of the results of the work done here, we will all wish that we had done better, and some of us will be surprised that we have accomplished so little. This is the last opportunity I will have of reporting the work of the Club
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WORK AMONG THE JEWS
James A. Vans, Supt.
faith in Jesus as His Saviour, and his utter disregard of the contempt, ridicule and subtle insinuations of the Jews, strength ened and encouraged her faith, and the next we heard of her she was telling Jewish friends and neighbors that she had found the Jewish Messiah. As she expected, her confession brought upon her a storm of persecution. Jews who until this time had taken no notice of her whatever, now called upon her in groups of as many as five and six at a time. They sought by every means which their resent ful hearts could suggest, to dissuade her from further confession of Christ. One of the ways in which she confounded her tormentors was by showing them that their new-found interest in her was not because of their concern for her spiritual welfare, or because they were jealous for God’s glory, but because they were jealous for Judaism and prejudiced against Chris tianity- “Why is it” she asked, “that you have all become so interested in me all of a sud den? Until now you have never paid any attention to me or cared if I were but an indifferent follower of Judaism, or even if I became a ‘free-thinker’ or an infidel.” Which is very true. One of the callers answering, said, “There is something which hurts a Jew in here (placing her hand on her heart)
A S we go in and out among the Jewish ■^'■people, we cannot but notice how like the Jews of our Lord’s day are the Jews of today. Pharisees and Sadducees, like those of old, we have in large numbers, still observ ing many of their ancient rites and cere monies, still as self-sufficient and self- righteous as ever; still widely divided as to their belief in a resurrection, and still closely united in their opposition to the Gospel. Illustrative of this opposition and .antagonism is the following incident: The passing years had brought to a, very intelligent yoting Jewess many changes, both temporal and spiritual. Financial difficulties caused her to realize her need of God, and in her trouble she sought and found “Him of whom Moses in the Law and the Proph ets did write, Jesus of Nazareth,” the Jew ish Messiah. Upon her acceptance of Him as her Saviour, she was instructed in the privilege and duty of confessing her faith to her Jewish relatives and friends. She frankly admitted that she greatly feared telling her own people p i the step she had taken, as she knew that in consequence of it, they would (as the Jews invariably do) make matters decidedly unpleasant for one of their own number who had confessed faith in the Lord Jesus. However, the boldness of another Hebrew Christian in Confessing his
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