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good, learning a trade as he waits for his sentence to expire. Some o f our readers may remember an account o f the conversion o f Mr. Z--------- given in the April number o f last year’s Kihgrs Business. W e well remember one o f our last visits to his bedside just before the Lord called him home. His w ife was standing near-and there was a happy light on her face as she heard her husband say to us “I know that my sins are forgiven and I am ready to go any time.” W e thought at the timé that this little Jewess was not far from the Kingdom. Several months after her husband’s death, we called with a Thanksgiving bas ket. When in the course of our conversa tion the name o f the Messiah was men tioned, her face lightened up and with joy in her voice she said, “ O, yes>.T know ! I believe in Him.” After asking a few questions we found that her husband had led her to Christ before his death. How happy we were as we left that .poor little home to know that. Jesus Christ was there, and that our prayer that God would give Mr. Z---------- some fruit before his death, had been answered. and we’ll spread it out. before Him who always hears the widow’s cry.” She brought him down to the Fishermen’s Club one Monday night, gloomy, depressed, reserved, but in that bright glowing atmo sphere he couldn’t help but thaw out. “ Why I never imagined that Christians could be as happy as this bunch o f fellows are; they seem- to have something inside that shines outside. What is it? They laugh and sing, as if there wasn’t a care in their lives. Yes, I wish I had what they have.” That evening was a revelation to the boy. W e whispered, the secret o f it all in one vtord-to his heart-®“Jesus.” So the mother, the boy and the friend knelt in a little room ere we parted, and told Jesus all.
in a little Jewish boy o f perhaps eleven years o f age. He was under the care o f the Probation Court. His mother, a Jew ess, being especially antagonistic at the time because o f the conversion o f one of her daughters, would not consent to our taking him to live „with us as we desired, so we committed him in prayer to the Lord, asking God to work out His purpose in the boy’s life. In the years that followed he spent much o f his time in the Reform School in expi ation o f his crimes. Information came to us one day that this boy, now grown to be a young man o f nineteen or twenty' years, was lying in the Detention Ward of the County Hospital as a result o f being shot by a Police Officer as a burglar sus pect. A worker, after visiting him a num ber o f times, was able to point him to the One that has said “Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them like snow.” He received Him as the Christ, the Son o f God, and his testimony in ,the County Jail a few days previous to his being taken away for a two years’ sentence for crime was to tell his friends that he was a saved man, and that henceforth he was going to live a new life. He is today making I T W AS just a telephone call from some .one who hadn’t left their name, and in the rush and hurry o f a busy day we were going to pass it over till a more convenient season, but on second thought we brought up the opportunity,; and thus discovered an old friend at the other end o f the line, a mother in great trouble over her wander ing boy. W e found time for the interview -»-such a story o f heartache and sorrow! ,“ I have cried my heart out in prayer to God for him, but no relief, till the thought pressed in on me, Does God care? After long nights o f suffering, your name kept coming before me, and I set- out to dis cover your whereabouts. Can’t you help him?” “ No, but I know One who can,
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