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BUSINESS 427 running down his cheeks, said, “It’s all true, and We have been ignorant so long of these things.” A friend of one of the young men con verts, stopped on his way out of town to pay him a visit, and found him reading the Bible. His friend said, “Won’t you let me Sake this Bible with me?” and he said, “yes, take it,” giving him, also, some tracts that had been left with him. Thus the work goes on, and only eternity will reveal the glorious harvest from this seed sowing. , Representative Dr! Evans gave us a splendid confer ence at Seattle. The response from the Ghristian people was generous, and the amount of good done will only be known in the eternal world. Among other things being accomplished by this, department is the distribution of literature. In one week, recently, a friend j in Cleveland,JOhio, sent for Bible-study literature; another asked for Bible-study leaflets, and was supplied; a pastor in Cal ifornia sent and was supplied with a goodly number of Bible-study leaflets for use in his church; another, person asked for and received literature dealing with vital Questions along Christian lines; over 200 copies of one book have been car ried to the several Bible classes and dis tributed; another book (on the prayer life), has been supplied in such large numbers that no record has been kept of the copies distributed. Constant and increasing calls are coming for literature from all over the ■country on a sort of “chain-library” plan. Several books have been sent to friends with the request that they be passed on to another friend after reading, each reader writing his name in the book. This brings inquiries about that particular book and DEPARTMENT
THE KING’; One of 1 the men converted, testified that one day his boss provoked him and he was angry, but almost instantly the Spirit reproved him and he asked God to forgive him and immediately his anger left him. There is one thing very encouraging about these converts; they do not keep the good news of salvation to themselves; they tell their neighbors and whoever comes to their homes of their experiences and read the Scriptures to them. One old Mexican, after hearing one of the women converts read a portion of the Scriptures, with tears ------------ O THE EXTENSION Geo. W. Hunter, M UCH progress in Bible work and much of blessing have been seen during the month. At Tacoma, where, a class has been conducted for the past eight. months, there has been a wonderful reve lation of God’s gracious love in the lives of many persons, particularly in the life of one man who, for several years, has been out of fellowship with Christ, but who, after persistent invitations from a family which has been used of God to open the way for the work, came one night to the Bible class. “The seed, which is the Word of God," found lodgment in his heart, and from that night he has been a persistent and aggres sive missionary for the Bible class in that section. His whole family has been attend ing the class, including his wife', a son and his wife, a daughter and her husband. The whole neighborhood is stirred up by his changed life, coupled with his persistency in reaching them by invitations, and scarcely a week goes by that from two to five new ones do not attend. Some come but the one time, others return again and again. He has worked zealously for his own household, and the fruits of his efforts are seen in the changed lives among those he loves.
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