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10:4). I find great happiness and peace of mind in reading the Bible. May the Lord protect us and keep us on the righteous path in this new life that He has made possible for us through His servants. I ask this in the name of the Lord. “ I remain your devoted husband,
Broken Law and Transformed Lives By W il l ia m A. C orey Four children were waiting in the wel fare office in the Hall of Justice, Los An geles. Frances was six, Joan nearly five, Helen three, and Frank, the baby, was five months old. Poverty was writ large all over them—poverty, neglect, and voiceless sorrow. It was a long wait. Stubs of pencils and scraps o f paper provided, the older three children were working hard at writing let ters to Mother. Mother was in the County Jail upstairs. Daddy had gone up to see her. A kind lady, Chaplain o f the W o man’s Department, had the children in charge. You should have seen those letters 1 Frances, who looked like her father, could write a scrawly “Deer Mother,” and draw kisses and make little squares with figures in them. But only a mother could “ read” and cry over the “letters” that Joan and Helen wrote. Mother was in jail for stealing. What? Stealing?—a mother of four? Yes, but it was not for herself that she acted. She stole for her babies’ sake. Hers was the old story; there was a drunken father, and neglect, semi-starvation, cold, nakedness 1 The mother went without shoes. When she had to appear in court at the trial, the “kind lady” had to provide her with a de cent dress. The father brought the chil dren into court at the trial. He was drunk at the time. He fell on the stairs with the baby in his arms. The woman was sentenced for a year. While in jail, she accepted Christ as her Saviour. But when word reached her that her babies were to be given away, and that she might never see them again, she was frantic with grief. But the kind lady, as always, was on the job. Later, when the prisoner was told that her little brood was being provided for, and that the little home would be kept intact, this poor mother got up in the gos pel meeting in jail one Sunday and told the other girls that she had not only ac cepted Christ as her Saviour, but that she was determined also to live for God. When she made that great decision, the woman was thinking, of course, of her ba bies and of her' husband quite as much as she was thinking about her own need. With the wife in jail, this husband was visited by two friends who brought the best kind o f sympathy—the promise o f de liverance and peace in the Lord Jesus Christ. The offer of salvation was accept ed, and the life of the drunkard was trans formed. The companion in jail received this touching message from her husband: “ Dearest W ife, “This is the day that I have seen the right way in which I should live. In my hours o f loneliness and grief, Mr. and Mrs. R ------------------- from the County Jail came out here and prayed with me, and made it possible for me to see life in a new light— the only life worth living. The one deci sion that we all have to make to see the beautiful things in life is being convinced that I am a sinner, and believing that Christ died for me. I now receive Him as my personal Saviour, and with His help I intend to confess Him before men. I am no longer disgusted with the outcome of the trial. I feel that if it is the Lord’s will, you will return to your home and ba bies and give them a mother’s love and teach them the only way in which they should live. I read the Bible to them each evening, and they offer a prayer for your return. I know it will be answered (Rom.
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Chaplain I. E. King (third from left) and group of Christian workers holding a meeting in a jail in Southern California This little story is chosen, -grab-bag fashion, from among hundreds o f similar ones that could be told by members of the United Jail Workers’ Association o f Los Angeles, Calif. These devoted workers are constantly preaching the gospel, sing ing the gospel, living the gospel—at the same time dispensing food, clothing, and Christian kindness in many ways. The aim o f the Association is unique: To give the gospel to all the prisoners in all the jails of a great city oil the time, and to reach their dependents outside with the good news of salvation. Accounts of God’s marvelous working are found in The Jail Evangelist, a monthly paper, ob tainable through Chaplain I. E. King, Room 224, Hall o f Justice, Lqs Angeles, Calif., at the rate of fifty cents per year. Evangelistic Notices Leonard J. Eilers recently completed a series of meetings in the Chevy Chase Bap tist Church, Glendale, Calif. He writes: “The most effective work was done in the Sunday-school and in the B. Y. P. U. during the three Sundays I was there. Unusual blessing came when, on a young people’s night, about twenty-five o f the thirty-five members o f a boys’ club who were visiting that night accepted Christ as Saviour. . . . I am heading now (March 1) for Powell, Wyoming. Wyoming is the state where many years ago I used to ride the range as a cowboy. I am happy that the Lord has opened the way for me to go there and witness for Him.” With fifteen men accepting Christ the last Sunday afternoon, and thirty adults the last night of the meetings, the Vom Bruch evangelistic party o f Long Beach, Calif., recently brought to a close a suc cessful return meeting in the Boulevard M. E. Church, Binghamton, N. Y. A daily broadcast was given over WNBF. Mr. Vom Bruch reports that thirty-five oppor tunities for meetings have opened to him since September first. He is now on the West Coast. Opposites Moody said, “ Be careful for nothing; be prayerful for everything; be thankful for anything.” Care and prayer are mutu ally opposed. Trust and worry will not live together in the same heart. When the peace o f God comes in, anxiety slinks out the back door.—R. T. B r u m b a u g h .
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