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All this was accomplished within a month. The last few days I have seen seven or eight of the hardest of these 'boys, and under the power of God all but one of these have come out on his side. None has been coerced, but all have been brought face to face with the facts about their relation ship with God and his great desire for claim upon them.” Our brother, F. G. Mitchel, of the Nav ajo Mission, writes from Tolchaco,- Ari zona: “At one of the Sunday services the missionary placed himself in the class with sinners, and after explaining what sin is, asked those who would confess that they were sinners to raise their hand with him. Notwithstanding the fact that the Navajo is very slow in confessing his faults, every one of the twenty-six present raised the hand. They were then asked if they would confess with him that their sins deserved to be punished, and as before every hand was raised. A third question was put. ‘Do you believe God loves you ?’ Again all hands were raised. At the fourth ques tion, although told not to raise the hand unless they really meant it, twenty hands went up in response to the question, ‘Do you believe that Jesus died for you?’ The missionary then explained that the Devil believes and trembles but that to be saved we must accept Christ! as our own Saviour and receive Him into our lives. He then asked those who were willing to leave the Navajo way, as he had left the white man’s way and take God’s way, to come forward and take him by the hand. Two men responded at this time, and six prom ised to come to the mission on the morrow and learn more of this way. The six we?6 present and all but one of them ac cepted Christ. During the eight days thirteen men and five women accepted the Son of God is their Saviour. It is a time for prayer as for rejoicing and let us ask God that' the work of grace may be realized in each of .these hearts and that the influence of these newly-born souls may be felt throughout the whole Navajo res ervation.”
istry. You need not expect a strong man in mind and body to engage in any voca tion when he knows there is no chance for expansion. We have on the home field one minister for one church of about 110 members. That is an average for all de nominations, I believe. Think of a two and one-half per cent gain in the United Stafes while on the foreign field it is fourteen per cent. Brethren, the people here at home have had a chance under the best of circum stances to receive the gospel for centuries. If the people of Sodom and Gomorrah haa ■been told what the folks at home have been told they would have repented, doubt less. As Paul said when he quit offering the gospel to the Jews, so ought we to say regarding the heathen, “Lo, we turn to the heathen.”—if. W. Ewart. Dr. H. L. Weber writes from the school at Efulen, Africa: “When this term began there were 125 boarding pupils staying here on the hill. Of these there were forty-six who had not accepted Christ. So as I had to look after all these in their work, it seemed that the Lord had placed them in my way for a reason, and nearly every afternoon while out in the field I called them, o’ne by one, with God as the only witness, and there more than forty ac cepted him. Then there was a still larger proposition on hand, for there were among those who .were not staying on the hill ninety-six who had not accepted Christ. After two weeks of prayer over this matter it came to me that the amount of work was indeed more than I could possibly handle, so why not use the Sunday school teachers in accomplishing this great task of seeing each one of these individually? On the following Friday afternoon 1 pre sented the matter to the teachers, together with an outline of the best texts to be used in this sort of work. We prayed over it, and it seemed clear to go ahead, and so we did, and just today at another meeting of the teachers we counted up those that had not accepted Christ, and out of the ninety-six there were left but seventeen.
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