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superstition, ignorance and over-sensitive- n'ess, now at the age o f twenty-four— morbid, melancholy, miserable—is brought to our attention, through a word dropped by .the almost distracted mother in a sym pathetic woman’s ear. Next morning we have the lad in a physician’s office, arrange ments are made for an operation, and within a few hours—‘hardly before he realizes what has happened—he is safely tucked in a cot at the hospital. Such a changed boy already! The physician had whispered that if it had been allowed to go on much longer, it would have meant insanity or suicide. W e would like to tell you all that this has meant along spiritual lines in that home, but this will be con tinued in our next, we hope. Another, like so many others in these perilous times, had been drinking at muddy streams—a mixture o f Russellism, Adventism and Eddyism—an awful con coction ! Nothing but poison in the cup, yet under just the clear, simple reading of the Word, the hungry heart absorbed and drank it in. Then it was sweet to see him reaching' out for others, hunting up old acquaintances and bringing them to us to be Straightened out. Again, it was at the Fishermen’s Club. T HE past month has been devoted largely to “net work,” i. e., opening up new territory, making first calls, hav ing first interviews. This part o f our Jewish work is perhaps not quite as fruit ful in the way of , immediate results as dealing with old cases, but is absolutely necessary if we are to enlarge our work, and it bears .the same relation to conver sions as seed time does to harvest. It has been our joy to see conviction in the faces of a number o f Jews as the gos pel o f grace was unfolded to them in the Old Testament, and they were shown from the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms the things concerning their Messiah—our Lord
Mr, Horton had been giving one o f his stirring messages, but this young fellow sat, seemingly chained to the seat, while one dear old soul-winner pleaded from behind and one on either side prayed. We reached down and gripped his hand, but still he sat. One o f the boys promised to go up to his room and pray while we two went into my room, and there had the joy o f seeing God break down every barrier the devil had builded around that heart. Surely, it pays to hold on to God until victory comes. This dear young fellow will, next Lord’s Day morning, follow his Lord in baptism and unite with one o f the churches. And still the calls come! For the maimed, the halt and the blind must needs be brought to Jesus, and the hours ape all too short to visit all the shops; the sad, wrecked homes; the hospitals, the high ways and hedges. God give us brave, stout hearts to minister wonderful words o f life in the Spirit’s power, to burdened hearts, and save something out o f the awful wreck ere the final crash comes swiftly to this old, God-dishonoring, Christ-rejecting world, and the midnight cry tings out, “Behold the Bridegroom cometh! Go ye forth to meet H im !” Jesus Christ. However, a Jew convinced is not necessarily a Jew converted. A struggle usually follows conviction, during which he is torn between the desire to accept Jesus Christ as his Saviour, and the fear o f the consequences o f so doing, for it often means having to bear misunder standing and even separation from loved ones, the ridicule o f friends and the loss o f position or business. These things account for the many secret believers we have among the Jews. Pray for these men that God may givethem the courage o f their convictions. The following incident shows that not only are tracts sometimes carefully read,
WORK AMONG THE JEWS Mrs. James A. Vaus, Supt.
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