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THE KING’S BUSINESS
story she told us to encourage you to labor and pray more earnestly for the unsaved. “At first,” she said, “I hesitated when asked if I could go to see a woman dying with tuberculosis and who as far as we knew w,a,s not saved, but feeling convicted for re fusing I promised I would go. I found the woman very ill. She seemed glad that even a stranger would call, and although she had other company I turned the con versation as soon as possible to speak of God and eternal things. She acknowledged having been a church member but I felt her salvation was not real and read to her from the Word that all are sinners and that Christ Jesus died for the ungodly. Though I prayed that God would use the Word 1 left feeling the work had not been accom plished, but returned a few days later tak ing some flowers which seemed to cheer the poor sufferer. I talked to her of the Lord Jesus and the life to come for those who were safely sheltered by the blood but did not seem able to get down to the matter of her personal acceptance of Christ. I feared after that visit that I would never see the little woman again but asked God to use the Word and if it were His will to keep her until I had another opportunity. The next day, after definite prayer with a friend that she might be spared a little longer, found me again at her bedside. She thought she was improved but I knew as I looked into her poor, worn face that the end was not far away and in utter weakness my heart was lifted to Him who knows and cares for guidance and then I again opened the Word and gave her some Scriptures which bore directly on what Christ had done on the Cross. She was too weak to answer as I urged her to accept Jesus as her personal Saviour, but I left with the burden lifted, feeling sure of her salvation. The next time I called I learned she had gone to be with Christ, “which is far bet ter.’ Her mother and friends who watched till the end said, ‘There was such a change.' ”
the presentation of His message to the hearts of men. After all men are all alike whether we run across them in workshops, palaces or the slums of the city. “As in water face answers to face so the heart of man to man.” All need Jesus Christ and all like the dove of old can find no rest for the sole of the foot until they return to the ark, “For neither is there salvation in any other.” O ne day recently a man approached us in the shop where we were conducting our Gospel meeting. Digging down into his pocket he handed me a piece of silver. “I was telling wife,” he said, “about that beau tiful song you sing for us sometimes of the boy who had gone away from home, and she wanted me to bring her a book so that we might learn to sing it together. Will you please sell me one of the books?” “ Have you a boy who is away from home?” I in quired.' Just one word in the affirmative, but oh, how much could be read in that one word. We didn’t have any hymn books to sell but gave him one and told him that we gave it to him just the same way God gives eternal life, “to as many as receive Him” as a free gift. He was like so many others, though, very willing to pay, but we pressed it upon him. He stayed and listen ed to the old, old story till his time was up and with a few words of thanks gripped my hand as he put the song book in his -pocket. We were fortunate enough to se cure his address, and one of our Bible wo men will go and tell the wife tne story ,of the other Son who left His Father’s home long, long ago “to seek and to save that which was lost.” Many of our boys in the rshops are far away from the old homes and the very hymns they ask us to sing are indications of the heartaches and longings. O ne of the men told us of his wife’s se vere illness and we asked one of our young women to call on her. I think you would Joe interested in hearing something of the
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