THE KING’ S BUSINESS/ WORK AT LOS ANGELES HARBOR
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Oscar Zimmermann, Supt.
B ECAUSE o f the recent slides in the, Panama Canal, no large vessels have arrived from the East Coast for a period o f three or four weeks. This has given the worker an opportunity to catch up a little with the lumber vessels, and a marked change is noticed on board these vessels ov£r conditions o f a year or so' ago. A very different reception and hearing was accorded us, and the hardest o f the men gave the worker a welcoming hand. There seems to be a spirit o f fear growing among men o f the world—a fear because o f the times which seem just ahead o f us. Prayer wai answered time and again.
o f the war, uncertainty o f life and his unconverted state,, he gladly received the message which he had often heard before. Yet, because o f the insincerity o f life among his Christian friends, he_ had turned away from everything and was miserable. “I asked myself the question,” he said, “in case o f accident to the ship would I. die like a man, bravely? Would I do my duty? And I said, I will die like a man.” He'was asked by the worker, “What will become of you after death ? Could you say you would be safe eternally?” He admitted that he was not a Christian. After settling different difficulties, he said, “ I will come
A SCENE AT THE HARBOR
home now,” and. he took. Christ as his per sonal Saviour.. In his dark days, when he could see no one standing out for God, and thought all a sham, God used a negro stoker a s a rebuke to him. Almost blind, with homdy features, yet because o f his peace at heart, the sunshine oh his face, and his faithful Christian life, he was ari
After a voyage of forty days from Buenos Aires, a steamer arrived in port, arid very giadly welcomed the worker, the men Seeming to be glad to see a new face among them. About eleven different nationalities were represented in the crew, and God led the worker definitely to an officer who was alone in his cabin. Because
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