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reason, but we want you to come into our family through a subscription. We want your subscription for the K ing ’ s B usiness on any of the terms proposed. We be lieve that you will find it a helpful visitor to your home. We would not spend all the time and money necessary to make a good magazine unless we believed that it would prove a good investment of the Lord’s money. It would take a great many times our present list to make the magazine pay for itself, but we believe it pays to publish the magazine—and therefore a Sample Copy. You must be the judge. We leave it with you. Give it a fair perusal and then act. Now, we are bold enough to go a step further and ask you to send us the names of some friends to whom we might send sample copies with some rea sonable expectation of interesting them. And hear us, once more, we are going to ask you right now, if you are interested, to request some of your friends to sub scribe and we are going to do it without making any promise of reward. If you have time and want to get some good books for yourself or Sunday school, write us and we will show you how it can be done at the expense of a little effort, but in this message to you we want to say again we are after your subscription, beginning im mediately. forty-five and fifty have found the Saviour and many have renewed their vows to the Lord. Backsliders have slid forward and one church which had closed its doors for nearly four months was opened again with an attendance of about one hundred fifty. A t the same place a young man was greatly stirred by the tracts and literature we were giving out and his thoughts were turned to his own lost soul. He was under such deep conviction that he could not sleep but went out on the oil tanks to pray and still he didn’t find peace until at last the message came to him, “Believe on the Lord the Oil Fields Superintendent.
spirational teaching of the Bible Institute I was led to yield my life in full surrender to the Lord.” Women would say out of full hearts, “Through the women of the In stitute I was saved from the darkness and despair of some religious fad.” From many homes of working men would come the tes timony of joy over husbands and wives saved and homes reunited. Many pastors would be quick to acknowledge the bless ings which had come to their churches through the work of the Institute. While all this is true we have just com menced our work. We have been laying foundations under great handicaps and now that the Lord has entrusted us with well equipped buildings we are expected to mul tiply our usefulness and to become a bless ing to yet thousands of people the world over. You can be in fellowship with us in many ways if you will. W hy a S ample C opy ? —If you are re ceiving a copy of the K ing ’ s B usiness and asking yourself, “Why?” we want to be very frank with you. We might say that we wanted you to have something good to read during the holidays and that would be true. We might say that we wanted you to know about our work for the Master and that would be true and a good enough The Work in Ralph C. Isbell, 'T'HE people in the oil regions are quiet and not emotional. One night while speaking on “Selling Out Cheap” I empha sized the Christian birthright and Mr. Hardy spoke to a man as he started away, asking him about his soul. He said that he, had been letting his birthright go because he was addicted to the tobacco habit and that he had decided to get into the place of service and full surrender at once. W e are glad to report that God’s Word has been given at every opportunity not only to the men in the field but on the road as well. Since coming to the fields between
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