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The membership of our eight months’ old Mission Sunday School in West Alhambra, in the midst of a Spanish settlement, has an average attendance of thirty. Thus God is blessing our service and bringing many into the light of the glorious Gospel. We who live in a land of an open Bible do not half appreciate the high privilege which we enjoy, in being able to worship God and study his Word—a privilege which our dark-skinned neighbors to the south, are denied. Is it any wonder they listen so attentively and sit up late at night perus ing the Word of God? Two men to whom the message was given were so interested that we were invited into the house, and continued to open the Word for over an hour, and later were asked to .sup with them. This was our first visit and before we left the host was asked if he had ever heard the Gospel before. He replied that he had lived in that place for ten years and we were the first to give him the Gospel message. As an evidence of the work of grace in the hearts of those who accept Christ, is the fact that they tell it to their friends, and loan the tracts and booklets which they receive, and in this way new places are opened. Praise God for His wonderful work to the children of men!
offered to visit them some evening during the week. In a few days we called again, and as we knocked at the door, the woman turned down the light and would not open the door, so we passed on to another house, where we were gladly received. As the message was given, they seemed quite inter ested and requested us to return. During the week the family that received the mes sage told the woman, whose picture appears in the group, that the message which had been given them was the truth such as was never heard in the Catholic Church. She invited her to come the next time and hear for herself, which she did, and from that time wanted the meetings held in her house. After a few visits and explanations she confessed that she had an idea that Protest ants were awful people and did not believe in God or the Virgin, etc., but that on hear ing the plain Gospel truth found it very different. Later she and her husband, along with the other man and his wife, accepted the Lord as their Saviour and now are so happy in their new found joy, and are so faithful. Later they moved to Pasadena, where they have joined the Mexican Meth odist church, the pastor of which has told me that they are among his most faithful members. The twins, menjioned last month as being dedicated to the Lord, belong to this family.
BIOLA CLUB
Marion H. Reynolds, Supt.
A S we look over the past year’s work, we can but look up and thank the Lord Jesus fbr it all. For without Him to work through us nothing whatever could have been accomplished. It is said that life is most worth living to him whose work is most worth while, and so the writer can say that this has been the best year in his life, because engaged in the work which is. most worth while— the saving of souls.
A man came into one of our noon-day prayer meetings, listened to the message, and at the qlose came forward and accepted the Lord Jesus as his personal Saviour. Talking to the worker after one of the meetings, he said: “My, what a change comes over one who accepts the Lord Jesus as His personal Saviour!” And true it is that he becomes a new creature, “old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” He said, “I used
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