missionaries. I was impressed by the Christian teaching, but could not understand the Trinity. I asked myself, ‘How can I believe in God and in Jesus also?’ Our religion for bade us to believe in two Gods. But I believed thoroughly that at some time in the future God Almighty would re veal to me the truth about Jesus. “ Later I went to Switzerland and attended the University of Zurich. While in Zurich I heard the Salvation Army people giving their testimonies on the streets. They also gave out various tracts. One of the tracts I received from them told about the Second Coming of Christ, and about the regathering of the Jews to their ancient homeland. I was so interested that I secured a copy of the New Testa ment and read it diligently to see what was going to happen in the near future. “ I was greatly interested in the Sermon on the Mount. I read it through once, and then read it a second time, and a third time. I felt that such a great revelation of truth could come only from God. And since Jesus had revealed these great truths, he must be what he claimed to be— the Son of God. The very moment I finished reading the Sermon on the Mount the third time, I fell upon my knees and asked God to show me whether Jesus was the Messiah of the Jews. In those very moments the Holy Spirit re vealed Christ to me, and I accepted Him as my personal Saviour. “ Later I had a great desire to come to the land of Israel. I arrived here in 1928. I attended a Bible School and was graduated in 1932. Then I returned to Bulgaria but came back with my wife during the second World War. I told my relatives in Bulgaria that the time would come that they too would be in Palestine. They laughed at me but now all my relatives have come to this land, and some of them have accepted Christ as their Saviour since they arrived here. My mother has found the Lord, and my uncle and aunt say they believe, and they are praying in the name of Jesus. Their two daughters are reading the New Testament, and their mother is encouraging them to believe in Christ.” The preservation of the Jews of Bulgaria from deporta tion and death was nothing less than a modern miracle. The freedom of the Jews in Bulgaria to migrate to Israel was a second miracle. How very different was the condition of the Jews in Roumania during the second World War. A Roumanian doctor in Jerusalem told us: “ Before the World War there were 800,000 Jews in Roumania. Half a million of them were killed by the Nazis. At present there are about 60,000 Roumanian Jews in Israel. Many of them escaped from Roumania by illegal means. Recently, how ever, an agreement has been signed between Israel and Roumania, that Jews in that country will be allowed to return to Israel, provided that someone could be found to take the place of the Jewish person in his work in a factory or elsewhere.” We have ordered an edition of Bulgarian New Testaments for careful distribution among the thousands of Bulgarian Jews in Israel. We have also ordered an edition of Roumanian New Testaments. Pray that nothing may prevent their publication and distribution, and that the Books may be wondrously used in the salvation of multitudes of Jews in the land of Israel. The last day of our stay in Israel, shortly before we left for our steamer, we were told by a Jewess that a day or two previous a Hebrew newspaper had reported the con version of a Jew in Tel Aviv who had been the chief rabbi in Bulgaria. The newspaper said that the Bulgarian rabbi told the story of his conversion to a large assembly of Jewish people in Tel Aviv. The rabbi told the Jews that he had been fasting and praying for three days and three nights and at last “the Spirit of Messiah” had come into him. He publicly confessed Christ as his personal Saviour. Let us pray for the strengthening of this Bulgarian rabbi and that he may be mightily used to lead multitudes of Bulgarian and other Jews to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. This may be the beginning of a third miracle among the Bulgarian Jews.
T h a n k s g i v i n g
Once more the liberal year laughs out, O'er richer stores than gems or gold; Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's bloodless triumph told. Our common mother rests and sings, Like Ruth among her garnered sheaves; Her lap is full of goodly things, Her brow is bright with autumn leaves. And we today, amidst our flowers And fruits, have come to own again The blessings of the summer hours, The early and the latter rain. To see again our Father’s hand Reverse for us the plenteous horn Of autumn, filled and running o’er With fruit, and flowers, and golden corn. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on, We murmur, but the corn ears fill, We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines behind us still. Oh, favors every year made new! Oh, gifts with rain and sunshine sent! The bounty overruns our due. The fulness shames our discontent.
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