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on another English vessel a man accepted Christ. On the first-named vessel the men, after ten months’ cruising, welcomed the worker and readily accepted the literature. On the latter vessel, a man whom we approached and who finally came out for the Lord, seemed a fine fellow, yet was very bitter, caused by an incident which happened in Australia-and which 'he had never forgotten. He was a Norwegian by birth, and while in a port in Australia, feeling at the time inclined to religious things, visited a mission on a Sunday after noon. After a little while tea was to be
time was spent with him, finally leaving him a different man. - Perhaps it will be remembered that in writing o f the conversion o f a ship’s doc tor, prayer was asked for the wireless oper ator /of the same vessel, a Japanese. Lit erature was left with him, and one day a letter came from him from New York, and later another from San Francisco. In the first, to; the worker’s disappointment, he wrote, among other things : “ I have not read the books which you presented me because I have been reading Russian novel, Tolstoi’s ‘Resurrection’.” We felt that
served, and hungry at heart too, and lone some, he felt the Christian influence would help him, but to his utter dismay it was announced that only English sailors were allowed to the mission and to the' tea, and he was turned out politely. He said he made due allowance for certain things, but that he was done with such business. Only after showing him that Christ’s spirit was sadly absent from that mission, and showing him Christ in the Scriptures, did he warm up, so splendidly that a long
Satan was at work, and that the utterly false novel interested this man apparently more than the Gospel. Yet God’s leading also was manifest, as one o f the books left with him was “ The Empty Tomb; or, Resurrection Realities Made Plain.” Was that not great? W e are still praying for this fellow, and the following extract from another letter in which he writes o f him self shows clearly a big change, perhaps conversion: “I have come to San Fran cisco this early morning, but our ship
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