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very penitent spirit and confessed that he had squandered over a thousand dollars during the year. He asked for our prayers that he too might know God as his heavenly Father. The camp is now moved but we are still praying for this man and those with him that some at least may be made new in Christ Jesus. A man received two tracts one evening at our street meeting, one entitled, “The Value of the Soul,” the other, “Are Your Sins Forgiven?” He put the tracts in his pocket and in a day or so afterward left for Nevada. While there one day talking with a group of Mexicans the conversation was turned to religion. One of the men said that- he liked the Protestants, that he had heard them in El Paso and that they had given him a Gospel of Luke and he liked what he had read in it. Then this man Who had received the tracts took them out, saying, “Here, these will just suit you.” The other man took the tracts, and read them over and over again. He then' wrote to our Mission asking about the references which were given in them. These refer ences happened to be in the Gospel of John and in Romans so we sent a copy of each to him, with a letter telling him more clear ly the way of salvation. He replied, ex pressing his thanks for the help and about a month later wrote again saying that he too knew that his sins were forgiven and that he would like to know us some day, but if he couldn’t he would know us in heaven, because he now believed in the Lord Jesus as his Saviour. We have never seen the man but are still corresponding with him and believe that he is truly con verted.
arid he longed to know more. He said, “In the place where I received these tracts they will be able to tell me what I ought to do.” He received the Lord Jesus as his Saviour and since has been at the mission almost every night. His testimony and prayers both indicate new life in Christ. He was baptized a short time ago. We expect to tell you more about, this man later. Pray for him. O n the thirteenth of August we stopped off at Morton, on the Santa Ana line, one of the points visited weekly when we go to Clearwater. There had been a sugar beet camp there where a number of Mexi cans have been harvesting the sugar beet crop. The contractor, also a Mexican, had been personally dealt with about his need of salvation and he had not been averse to talking about it. However, he ,is much given up to drinking and it has been dif ficult to deal with him. On this occasion he ordered the twenty-two men to stop work and for forty minutes they listened atten tively to the reading and comments upon the third chapter of John. Questions were asked and answered! and s6me wished to argue. The contractor told them that if they did not wish to listen to at least not hinder others from listening. Each week we have visited this camp and each time we have received a good hearing. One day upon going there we found that the “boss” had purchased a keg of beer and nearly all the men were drinking. We said that there would be no meeting while they were drink ing, so the contractor told the men to pour the beer on the ground.. The message that day was the story of the Prodigal Son. After service the contractor manifested a
The Bible Women’s Work Mrs. T. C. Horton, Superintendent
Y~\NE lady saved last winter through visi- to know Jesus personally. I never could tation is now passing through great live through this if I did not know Him.”
trials. Recently she said to the worker, “You never can know how glad 1 am you came to my home that day and that I came
W as not the Spirit leading when I was constrained to go into a certain house and
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