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agree to teach their children the Sunday School lesson, they will be furnished with the denominational literature, by one of the pastors of the county, of that partlculaf denomination, thereby getting every family in touch with the pastor of its choice. This is one of the most worthy religious enterprises that has ever been launched in A STUDENT of the Correspondence Course on “Personal Work” writes the following interesting and vitally im portant letter : “Pardon my long silence. You must have .wondered why I have failed to send for the second examination. It has been partly owing to my having been out of town, which preverited studying such a very long and difficult lesson, but largely to^a fact which I will tell you, and which I am very sure will explain all and be clear to you. “When I studied the section on ‘Man,’ after finishing the first examination, I was conscious that I did not have fu ll victory in my life, and experience; in fact, it was the heart cry after it which caused me to desire to make a real study ; and when I to the superintendent of the Bible Institute: “Things are so absolutely dead in this old stronghold of orthodoxy and blue laws that, coming from the breezes which blew upon me from the Bible Institute, I am almost fainting under the deadly calm. There is a great work of awakening to be done here, and I want to help to undertake it, though I feel so weak and greatly handicapped. “The situation here is peculiar; an old- fashioned, proud community, priding itself upon being in a sacred circle, quite distin guished and apart from common Yankee- ,dom; quilje a number very rich, quite a number with comfortable incomes, a large proportion of good, middle-class people, Italian workmen and remnants of old Yan A N Eastern visitor, upon his return home, addressed the following letter
this county,¡and it is receiving the most cor dial support of all the churches. The county officers selected by churches of Colusa county to head this work are: G. A. Ware, Williams, president; George Corbin, Delevan, vice-president; C. D. McComish, Colusa, secretary; J. M. Stovall, Williams, treasurer, and George P. Wicker, Los Angeles, secretary. noticed in Section 6, that one had to know this in personal experience to be a personal worker, I closed the book and set out to find it by prayer and His Word. I could not go on until I knew the secret of His fullness. Later in July I went to a Christian Girls’ camp, where ‘Victory1 was the chief theme, and there I learned the blessed Truth, and now am free to go on and take the examination when I have committed the texts as I am now endeavoring to do. In a very real way I desire to work for Him. How slow we are, even after knowing Him as. our Saviour for years, to take Him as our Victory! I thank Him for using these lessons to arouse me, with the prayer that He may truly bless your work, and I thank you for your prayers.” kee working people; a few quite religious. all priding themselves in their old Congre gational Church, but a great many dead on their feet as to real service in the Master’s cause. The proximity of a large city with its wealth makes this a favorite suburb and place for a flourishing Country Club. There are lots of people of kind hearts and many desire a warm religious life and experience. “It is with the humble class here that I would begin to work. My own church, Episcopal, is as frigid as an arctic winter, and I have been in conference with our rector as to methods of procedure. It seems almost a situation to despair of. I will be glad for a word from you and for your prayers for this community, that I may be instrumental in trying to point the way of salvation.”
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