THE ' KING’S BUSINESS A WORLD-WIDE WORK
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An Appeal for Funds to Support the Spread of the Gospel Among Travelers on the Sea
I N THE June issue o f T he K ing ’ s B us iness , page 532, is a tabulated report of two week’s work in the Los Angeles Har bor, by our representative, Oscar Zimmer man. Did YOU look at it carefully? It is well worth an analysis. Twenty vessels were visited during those two weeks; twelve different nationalities were represented by these twenty boats. When you look at the record you are struck at once with the thoroughness of it. The record is kept in this manner from month to month, except that the book itself contains more detail than it was possible^to show in the limited space afforded in the magazine. When you are giving your money for Christian ¡work, you like to know that it is wisely and judiciously used. Look again at the report; note that there were given away seyenty-three colportage books; 148 Gos pels; 885 tracts, and three New Testaments. There were forty-two interviews and twen ty-five conversions reported. Seven letters were written to men previously dealt with. What about those interviews and prayers and the influence o f a man o f God with a big heart, loving and praying for those men? . Our worker does not wait on the shore for the men to come to him, but goes on board the vessels. He does not confine himself to work for sailors but has the joy o f dealing with many officers in the cabins and gives the Gospel to thousands o f passengers from Japan, China and Korea, on their way to South America. Very many years o f service on the firing- line, during which I have been able to study Christian work in all o f its phases, leads me to say that I believe that this work is one o f the best possible investments for Chris tians who are seeking to obtain good returns for the money which they give for Chris tian work.
The work is a combination o f home and foreign service; it is world-wide in its scope. Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Hawaiians, negroes, Spaniards, Greeks, Italians, Filipinos, Norwegians, Siamese, Chinese, Japanese—all reached within two weeks, and all having the message by lip or tract in their own language. The efficiency o f our work has so com mended itself to the officials that our worker is given carte blanche privileges for all boats, and he is now in San Francisco har bor working among the -vessels there. He will spend a month in Seattle, on the same business. W e want to do, both in San Francisco Kand Seattle, what God has enabled us to do here, and are. coveting the prayers and help o f our readers for this work. To carry out this purpose, we need $5,000 for a year’s work in these three great ports. What will you do? Where can yotf put a portion o f your funds to better purpose? W e will cheerfully give any additional information concerning the work. Remember that books, Gospels. Testaments and Bibles cost money, and if the men are to have them the means must be supplied. What have you -to say about it? What will you do? T. C. H. ---------------O --------------- Fred H. Dreyer, Superintendent o f the Shansi Bible Institute, China Inland Mis sion, at Hungtung, N. China, writes: “ The Lord is blessing us in the work here. The Institute is slowly but steadily growing in influence and numbers. Other missions are beginning to send students and a fair pro portion o f our former students are doing well. While there are quite a number o f Theological Seminaries, there are but few Bible Institutes so that we are supplying a real need.”
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