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was wrong. The next night I could hardly wait until I got back to your place. I went away when I knew I ought to come back to God, but I had no rest. I got ou t-of bed, fell on my knees and cried to God to forgive m e; got back into bed and it wasn’t two minutes until I had perfect peace. I am here tonight to do anything I can.” God has been using him here and he has asked to be allowed to do any "work we want done, for he wants to get into the harness. So you see it pays to pray, and if you haven’t been praying much for the work, begin now and pray for the men we reach here. There is always a need for men and women who will pray for us, so start in and give God a chance, for we believe it is through the prayers of God’s 'people that we are able to carry on the work. without any errand or excuse. She was not calling in the neighborhood, but on the way to the car had felt led to stop at the houses, leaving tracts and saying a word »for Jesus. A woman was found who was under conviction of sin and had been wish ing someone would come and show her how she might be ,saved, and then and there she accepted Christ. W e called often to see her, and finally one evening her hus band came to the door in answer to the bell. He asked the Bible Woman in, try ing to excuse himself to call his wife, but we said, “ Don’t call her; she is busy, and we would a lot rather talk to you.” So he really had to stay, though, as he afterward confessed, very much against his will. But we were praying as we talked, and very Soon he became interested. W e must have stayed two hours, but when we left there were two very happy people in that home, for the husband had accepted Christ and
was living in a backslidden condition. He refused to come back to God and went away very angry. The next night he came back, stayed through the evening meeting, and when asked about his soul he said, “I am anxious to get back. I wish you would pray for me,” and then went on home. The next night he didn’t come,, but the night after that he came in, and we knew by his face that something had happened. When we closed the meeting the first man to shake our hand was the one who four nights before had gone away angry, and with a smile on his face he told us this story: “ The night I came in here you made me mad because you told me about my sins, and I took you to task about it, but I knew I A S we sat in the hospital grounds with one on whom we. had come to call, we saw a man rolling himself around in a wheeled chair, in a most cheerful way. From remarks made by him to several who entered into conversation with him, we gathered that he had- been injured in a moving picture accident. His chief diffi culty seemed to be how he could employ his time, now that he was, as he expressed it, “laid up for repairs.” Passing his chair as we left, we gave him some carefully selected tracts and a Gospel o f John, and asked if he would not read them now that he .had time to read, and this was really good reading. He thanked us most cordi ally and courteously, saying he surely would do so, and we left praying that God would use the written Word to speak to this man’s soul in these days of enforced quiet ' and inaction. The Bible Woman had gone to the door
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