THE K I N G ’ S B US I NE S S the police’ and having him arrested for disturbing the peace, though they were the real offenders in this regard. After much loud talking and many excited gestures, with a great show of violence and threats of personal injury, they sought to frighten the missionary away. Failing this they adopted the tactics recommended in one of the Jewish newspapers for dealing with street preachers, viz: to walk away and leave, him alone. Acting upon this advice they withdrew to the opposite side of the street, calling to all to follow. This the crowd readily did, except two men, — one of whom was friendly to the mis sionary. This man they picked up bodily and hustled ' across the street, leaving the missionary talking to the one man who refused to obey their wishes and with whom they were afraid to use force. Stones were hurled across the street at the missionary, but the danger of striking some other passer-by stopped this form of amusement. After the Jewish man left, the missionary deem ing it unwise to attempt anything further at that time, passed on up the street, followed by the jeers and curses of the crowd, but happy in the thought that he had actually been stoned for the Lord’s sake. How blinded and how hard are the hearth of many of these “ lost sheep of the house of Israel!” May God in mercy awakenthem to their awful need before it is too late. MB■ I . jig Reaching Men in a Busy City In the closing days of our Saviour’s ministry, we find Him alone with His disciples, and praying “ As Thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent •them WORK AT into the world” BIOLA (John 17:18), and HALL ever since it has been the work of the followers of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel story to the world.
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much of interest to their .nation, are •saying to each other, “ Moshiach Zite,” “ Moshiach Zite,’’ which means, “ Mes siah Time,” “ Messiah Time.” They interpret the signs of the times as indi cating that Messiah must soon come, and on this point both the orthodox Jew and the orthodox Christian are agreed, hut,— OH', what an awakening there will he when Israel, God’s ancient peo ple, “ look upon Him whom they pierced!” How profound is the dark- /-ness' that envelops God’s disobedient, "but still beloved people, Israel,' and kow great is their blindness, is shown in the following incident: , For some time past it has been the custom of the writer to visit on Sunday afternoons a certain Jewish section of the city in close proximity to our Jew ish Mission. Handing out a few tracts and Gospels to Jews met on the street usually results in some questions being asked, and a discussion once started soon draws a crowd and in this way we have been able to reach hundreds of Jews' with the Gospel. For the most part, these meetings are conducted with no more than an occasional disturbance by one or two rowdies who are to be found in every crowd. The last gathering of this kind was held on the second day of “ Rosh- Ha-Shonah,” or the Jewish New Year. There were many Jews on the street and a large crowd quickly formed. They bitterly resented having a mis sionary come and attempt to preach to them, especially as it happened to he one, of the most important holidays in the Jewish year. One of their number leaped upon a chair and in the Yiddish tongue made a speech to the crowd con sisting of ridicule and abuse of mis sionaries in general, and ending with a curse upon one missionary in particu lar. A hand of ruffians in the crowd pro posed to run the missionary off the street, at first attempting to do this by ridicule, then by threats of calling
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