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THE KING’S BUSINESS WORK IN THE SHOPS
David Cant, Supt.
T IKE the stirring events in the great —f war drama, each and every day bring ing startling developmenis, are the triumphs and victories in which we have been priv ileged to share during the past month as the battle has been waged by our Master, Jesus Christ, against the mighty foe, Satan, and
but the rewards will come to those who have borne us up in prayer, in that day so rapidly approaching. We have seen men on their knees crying to God and He has seen and heard and answered. We have looked into the sin-stained faces of crooks and criminals—400 of them lodged at pres-
Supt. Cant (on Front Seat) and His Shop Crew
his hosts of darkness. W e are constrained to ring.out a note of praise to Him for a great door and effectual opened to us, and which, thank God, no man can shut until the Lord Himself shall shut it. As the doors to churches, clubs, shops,'car barns, laundries, fire engine houses, jails, hospitals, poor-farms and the highways and byways, have swung open, we have marched in and seen opposition and antagonism melting, and the tender, gracious Spirit of God subduing and breaking down, and taking possession. We wish you might have witnessed the stirring scenes in both city and county jails,
ent in our county jail, and twenty-seven charged with manslaughter; we have seen the tears falling, and listened to the heart broken confessions, and have been able to tell even these that the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanseth from all sin. In the car-barns, where the noise and confusion and the bad and boisterous lan guage have sometimes compelled us to omit the public meeting and just mingle among the men, sowing the seed here and there .where God opened the way—even here we have seen, during the past month, a mar vellous change, and when we resumed our meetings one could almost hear a pin drop,
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