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indifferent. He was hard to approach as he would not talk much, yet claiming to be a Christian. The Word used of the Holy Spirit brought him first to admit his lost condition and finally to accept Christ as his personal Saviour.
dred and fifty times and have sent it to my mother now as I ordered a number to give to Swedish friends.” A colored waiter on a vessel was ap proached and found to be rather tricky and .
Work Among the Jews Mrs. L. Manson, Superintendent.
have the opportunity of speaking to her I prayed that God would make her listen just then, and with as much tact as I could while I was getting my tracts for her, I told her of my love for and interest in her people and of the great debt I felt I owed them that it was through the Jews I had- any knowledge of God, that I owed my Bible to them for both Old and New Testaments were written by Jews and that Jesus our Saviour was a Jew. She was pleased and interested at once, saying, “Gentiles do not often speak as you do; they feel very dif ferently toward us. I can tell you.” I then showed her Deuteronomy 28:37, where Moses foretells that the Jews shall become an astonishment, a proverb and a by-word among the nations. She listened with grow ing interest to several prophecies concerning the people such as Numbers 23:16, Deute ronomy 28:63-66, and when I showed her in Zephaniah 3:14-20 and Ezekiel 37:15-28 how God was going to restore them to their land and make them “a name and a praise in the earth,” her heart was quite won, and I was allowed to go in and tell her about Messiah Himself and show her the remarkable pic ture of Him in Isaiah'S3 and Psalm 22 and Daniel 9:26. When I showed her the won derful likeness to Jesus she said, “Oh, we Jewish girls all believe deep down in our hearts and we do want to know.” When I apologized for taking so much of her time she said it was all right. She had turned the fire low under something she was bak ing so she might listen. And so our hearts are cheered as we go from door to door to find earnest hearts, willing listeners to the old story and many, many times they said, “We are glad you came, come back again.”
/A N November first, at Mrs. Manson’s ^ home, a sewing class for Jewish chil dren was started with an attendance of five. The class is held once a week and there has been a steady increase until there is now an enrollment of sixteen with bright prospects for the future. The class is opened with songs and prayer, after which a half hour is spent in telling Bible stories. The purpose in teaching the Scriptures is not only to benefit the children but also to reach the par ents through them. An hour is then given to instruction in sewing. The progress in this work has been such that it has already been necessary to grade the class. The senior division has commenced to make gar ments for themselves, while the little peo ple are working diligently to learn the sim ple stitches. Before dismissal a delightful tea party is enjoyed by all. The children are looking forward eagerly to the promised Christmas tree, to which their parents are invited. Any others who are interested in this Jewish work will be very welcome on this occasion. T hat a very noticeable change is taking place in the attitude of the Jews toward Jesus Christ in these last days is very evi dent to our workers as they go about among them. We are constantly wondering at the power and grace of God in opening new homes for us to enter with the Gospel. Just before Thanksgiving I found a sweet-faced Jewess at the door of a pretty little home in my visitation work in Boyle Heights. When I made known my errand she said she was very busy and did not have time to talk to me just then, but that she would take my tracts. Feeling that I might never again
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