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ley (the ship’s kitchen), sitting on an old barrel, peeling potatoes. Right away the worker was conscious that here was a soul to be won, and it would have made any worker rejoice to pick this ripe fruit for the Lord; a clean fellow, dissatisfied with the meager comfort his- church could give him, ignorant of the plan of salvation
and conscious of his sin, he saw the light and settled the question then and there, and we left him a different fellow. Please pray for him, and for the chief engineer who was almost persuaded. Prayer is also asked for a man who, finding a Gospel of John and reading it, became conscious of his sin; and for the young Chinese fellow.
THE SPANISH WORK
R. H. Bender, Supt.
AA7 •ITH the month of December we com- * * pleted the first year of,service under the auspices of the Bible Institute of Los
have listened to the message, and many times have shown their appreciation by offering us a cup of coffee or inviting us
Angeles, and as we look back over the year’s work we can but say, “What hath God wrought ?” It is with deep, humility and gratitude to our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom all honor and glory is due, that we 'record some of the things accomplished during that time. In the first place, we desire to thank God for the privilege He has granted us of being His messenger to the Mexicans within our gates, and to be able to say that wherever we have gone, be it on the ranches or the railroad section-houses, we have been welcomed by the people, who
to sup with them ; and when we have visited and ministered in one place that is at a distance from the cars, they have taken the trouble to drive us to the station. Truly, all this is an evidence of their reception of thé truth. No doubt the readers of T h e K ing ’ s B usiness would be interested to know how the family, whose picture appears here, was brought to the Saviour, One Sunday after noon we visited the section-house in West Alhambra and* met two men in the yard. We handed them a tract and talked to them about the Saviour, and before leaving
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