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could he finally see where his whole trouble lay, and the way of salvation, but what a joy it was to see him come to the light and .say he would accept Christ. Will you not pray for him? He asked especially to be visited again and as soon as his ship returns we hope to meet him and see how he has been get ting on. Faithful Sowing Among Mexicans Never before have we had such encouragement from the blessed Word as dpring the past month, especially as wi/meditate on such familiar passages as the following: WORK AMONG “ Let us not be SPANISH PEOPLE weary in well- R. H. Bender, Snpt. doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.” Many times we are tempted to be discouraged as we go again and again to visit and preach at the same places, to the same groups of Mexicans, and there are times when we look into their faces and wonder if they will ever understand, but imme diately we are reminded of our many years’ experience in Central America, where we found that it must be “ line upon line, precept upon precept,” for it must be remembered that these Mex icans have not been taught the Bible from their infancy, and we' have met hundreds that have never seen, a Bible and much less know anything of its contents. Therefore, the more simply the Gospel is given, especially through object lessons and blackboard illustra tions, the more quickly are they able to grasp the truth. Even now, be it said to the praise of God, some are awaking out of their sleep and we are believing that they will soon arise from the dead and Christ shall give them light. We have some interesting groups to whom we minister, who are beginning to respond, and we believe that the
boarded by the workers at San Pedro, and especial note was made in our rec ords of the work done: “ Very friendly crew and officers; glad to get calen dars and tracts.” The pantryman on this vessel was especially delighted to get the books and tracts. Two men of this crew lost their lives. The last time the U. S.'S. “ San Diego” - was visited was May 30th, 1916. The record shows that 32 books, 55 Gos pels, 300 tracts, three pamphlets and three New Testaments were given out. Nine different officers and men were dealt with and five conversions were had. Is it not tremendously worth while? Mr. Grings, now a missionary in Africa, held a .Bible class on that ship, as the record shows. Many men on this ship lost their lives in the twinkl ing of an eye through the explosion. We must speak of a case, quite dif ferent from the ordinary run of things, which was met with by the worker: Having had a number of rather lively discussions among some typical coast sailors, in which we were finally used of thq Lord to focus their attention on the Word of God and their need of the Saviour,— a cabin was entered and a man ‘-‘all prepared” to speak to was found, sitting on a low chair, with his head in his hands, looking as mournful as Job. Asked what his trouble was, he said “ Everything! I’m the biggest fool you ever saw and in the very jaws of remorse. It’s terrible!” It came out that after promising his good.Christian mother, with tears in his eyes, that he would live an upright life, he went out and fell into sin, and there he was, deeply conscious of his inability to keep his word to his mother. It was drink which he had promised her never to touch again. “ Otherwise, I’m O. K. in every way,” he said. Then the painful process began, when he was shown by the worker that “ drink” wasn’t his only sin, but that the damning sin was his rejection of Christ. He was of the hopeless, most hopeless, and only slowly
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