THE KING’S BUSINESS
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WORK IN THE OIL FIELDS R. C. Isbell, Supt. •
A CIRCUIT of the northern oil fields was finished in the latter part of July, the workers having been on the fields nearly eleven months. In that time we have given out hundreds of tracts and Gospels, and sold Bibles and Moody colportage books, and books on the modern isms and fakes. Several Bible classes were organized and family altars re-established, and sòme start-, ed for the first time. In one place, several families in which the husband and wife were becoming estranged, were reunited yi that.
stronger and everlasting tie of being one in Christ Jesus. . Sunday Schools were organized’ and church services were started in one com munity which had been for some time with out church or Sunday School. “Eastern” Christians?became “Western” Christians, sending for their church letters, the fruit of your intercession. Pray God to thrust out reapers into the harvest, for it is whitened already, and is waiting for the reaper’s-hand.
— '---- ------------- WORK AT LOS ANGELES HARBOR Oscar Zimmermann, Supt.
TT WAS on an English .vessel that the worker found a specially warm welcome, and it was there that God opened hearts for the message.- Having barely-escaped destruction by a submarine and aeroplane, the vessel after many days entered the har bor, and though the ship was arrayed in .war colors,, black and dreary, yet its gloom was illumined by the fact that on it a man ac cepted Christ. * What a strange state of affairs! Sepa rated from the other side of thé narrow forecastle by a thin wall was found a num ber of .Englishmen, weary and black with the dirt of the engine room;, just across the partition was heard the rolling of dice and the peculiar noises thirty-five Chinese can make when they are gambling outside, the confusing rattle and puff of the hoisting en gines. One could but wonder what the history might be Of each of those so close together as roommates, so far separated as to their nationality, yet with a common heed because of the knowledge deep in each heart that a life of sin does not pay, either herè or hereafter. Sitting in one corner a lad was listening^ deeply interested, to the message. Catholic
papers, had been given him 'ey the captain, and looking them over and over again and remembering some things heard in his child hood, he was full of questions. ' At the bottom of all was concern about his soul, and as the message was given to him on the Christ who could save, then ,and there, he finally saw the light and was glad to meet the worker, whom he thanked for coming. Among the Chinese in the next room the worker also found eager and appreciative hearts as he gave Out Chinese literature. Looking upon every white man with 'sus picion'/as these people do, yet in an instant they change their attitude and their faces light up when they know that the worker is a Christian. “Jesu” goes from one mouth to the other, and that is the only name or word Upon their lips one can understand among all the other queer sound's. After half an hour spent with them the worker finds he must leave good friends behind, and prays that from the leaflets, Gospels and New Testaments given them, they may come to know and love the Name which is above every name. Pray for them. Ï One Other day on a vessel’s deck a sailor was found reading a magazine. He was a
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