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will in no wise cast out,” and he came with tears streaming down his face and asked Jesus to save him. Afterwards he told us this sfory : He said his wife was a Chris tian'and that he was a church member, and that God had told him to let his light shine before the men with whom he was work ing and he had not obeyed. As a result, An the course o f time he fell away and had been miserable ever since. The night before he came to the club, his wife had asked A A I E came into, this community three * * weeks ago and made inquiry about Sunday school and church services, and were told that most o f the folks went to a nearby town to church and Sunday School, or rather, those who were interested went. However, upon inquiry, we found a hall which the W. C. T. U. Had built several years ago and not now occupied, and several people having signified their willingness to attend services, if begun, we began the fol lowing Sunday afternoon. I said to one lady that we would teach a Bible Class if enough would attend to make it worth while, and she said she thought she knew o f six who would be interested. I said, “All right, we will start the class,” which we did the following Monday night, one hour before preaching services, and had about twenty present. The first week o f our services we had an average attendance o f about thirty-five,' and the Lord gave us twelve professed conver sions, one of. whom was, an ex-bartender. This man was converted on Saturday night, and the next afternoon he brought his aunt and after the service he came up to me and said. “I want you ,to come and lead my auntie to Christ; she is 77 years, old, and she wants to be a Christian,” which we did and she and her nephew and his wife and daughter will all be baptized into
him to go to prayer meeting with her, but he would not go for fear someone would say something to him. He was passing the club-room on- a car, saw the sign, got off the car and came in. It was in this manner that he came back to the Lord. When he left the Club Room, he said, “ Now we can go to prayer-meeting together and be happy together.” So the work goes on and we praise Hinv who does it all. the same church next Sunday evening. Our Bible Class became very interesting as we studied the first eight chapters o f Romans. In fact, it was so interesting that one evening we voted not to,have preaching service but to continue our class, so for two hours and fifteen minutes we studied God’s Word as revealed to us by Paul in the sixth chapter o f Romans. Our meetings closed yesterday owing to the fact that “ The Laymen’s Missionary Movement” is T o hold a convention in Chico the next week. Some were very anx ious that we should continue our meetings anyway, but it is not our intention to inter fere with any meetings previously arranged for, so we agreed to give them another week of, meetings and Bible study after the Convention is over. We had a total of seventeen conversions and fifteen conse crations. Last Tuesday a lady came and said that she and two or three others had some questions and wanted to know if I could give them a special Bible class the next afternoon, which was arranged for, and instead o f three or four we had eleven present. On Friday they asked me to give them another afternoon for the study of “The Rapture,” and we had sixteen present. Out o f our meetings we organized a Bible study class to meet every Thursday evening ¥
THE NEGLECTED FIELDS By George P. Wicker
Mr. and Mrs. George P. Wicker are doing a spleridid work as'representatives of the Christian Endeavor Society of the;Church of the Open Door, in the neglected districts of California.
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