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The Spanish Work Mr. L. H. Jamison, Superintendent.
A NE of the parties spoken of in our last report as having accepted the Lord and attending thé mission so regularly is now out on the government works at West minster, and he writes that he is preaching the Gospel to the men there. We have sent him a number of tracts and Gospels and God is blessing his work. A mong the Mexican families visited at Whittier, there was one poor, sick woman found. The way had not been open into that home before. However, through kindly ministrations the door was opened and this woman accepted the Lord Jesus as her Saviour. She became very ill and was ex pected to die. A priest came but the wo man refused to confess to him or accept any of his so-called “holy ministrations.” She is much better now and that home is open to us for cottage meetings whenever we visit Whittier. L ike incidents have lately occurred in Montebello, La Canada and Los Nietos, where weekly visits are made. A sick man at La Canada, who recently died, refused to confess to the priest or to receive extreme unction. He said that he had confessed his sins to God and that he needed nothing more than that which the Lord Jesus, his Saviour, had done and was doing for him. S ome time ago we got a pulpit on wheels with a folding black-board attached. We take this pulpit out with us each evening to our open air meeting at the corner of Re public and Main streets. We have been
printing Gospel texts on the board and en deavoring to emphasize the truths taught in «them. Mr. K-, one of the students, has been helping very much by the use of the board. He is a splendid cartoonist and quick with the chalk. The other night it was rather cool and we could only get about twenty or twenty-five men to stop and listen to the Gospel. Then Mr. K. came and I asked him to illustrate a story told by Chen Brady, and I told the story. Chen Brady was taking a stroll in the suburbs of London once when he saw a man followed by a lot of hogs. His curiosity being aroused, he followed the queer procession, until the man led the hogs into the slaughter house and closed the door. Chen Brady went to the man and asked him how it was possible to lead a bunch of hogs just as he would sheep. He said, “Did you not see the basket I car ried? It had corn in it and I went along, letting the grains of corn drop, and so they followed. “That,” said Mr. Brady, “is the way the devil does with sinners.” Mr. K. took the suggestion and drew a slaughter house, putting the name, “Rastro,” which is the Spanish word for slaughter house, in large letters on the roof. He then drew a winding road down to the corner of the board and a man with a basket on his arm, followed by about twenty hogs, going to ward the slaughter house. While he was drawing the crowd increased and by the time he had finished the picture there were about seventy-five present. The simple Gos pel story was then given, using the story as an illustration. There was evidently a marked impression, and it was a splendid opportunity to bring home the message.
The Work in the Shops Mr. David Cant, Superintendent.
X \ TTIILE we do not have the same thrill- V* ing experiences to narrate that men in the missions and streets encounter with down-and-outs—for our men are respectable,
clean up-and-outs—their hearts are just the same. They are hopelessly lost without Christ, and although they hedge and guard and shield themselves from the message and
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