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day by day we notice the deepening apos- tacy and rejection of God’s Son; so little of heart humiliation and true repentance; so much of egotistical complacency; so many dull, listless, indifferent faces, and the message flung back upon us. Truly our Lord is still despised and rejected of men, but as the night closes in, we take heart realizing that the time is short and a brighter day will dawn for the children of the day.
ing us wider fields of service for our stu dents. We have close to sixty open-doors and we certainly are a busy and happy crowd, as crew after crew start out from the Institute. Of course in many places we are feeling the after-effects of all great revivals; hearts becoming more hardened as men seal more deeply their own con demnation because of light presented and rejected, and we find we are a “savour of life unto life, and death unto death.” 'Our hearts cannpt but grow sick and heavy as
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By Frank J. Shelley
has lost fifteen pounds in the last month. He wept when we dealt with him the other day, but is a rank unbeliever. We will see him again, and trust the Lord will lead him to repentance and salvation. This is only one of very many similar cases. We have held a good many evangelistic meetings the last month. We are in a meeting now at Browngold School, which will be closed on account of the better attention given at the Boarding House, where the rest of the meetings will be held. It is a problem to reach the men. We can get the .women and children, but it takes all sorts of planning and praying to get hold of the young men. We have had a good interest and a number of restorations of backsliding Christians, and are praying for more results among the unsaved. One case was found where a Christian woman had married an unbeliever, he hav ing afterwards become a drunkard. Strange to relate, we ran across her husband on a lease about fifty miles away. He told us he had stopped drinking and was going to, give his heart to the Lord. We led him in a prayer of acceptance, and his wife afterwards told us she had heard from him and intended to go back to him if he “made good.” One can hardly conceive the curse that liquor is in the Oil Fields, and we are
\ \ T E have a monthly motto; this month "V it was 2 Tim. 4:1-7—particularly verse 5, where we are bidden to “watch,” “endure,” ‘“work”’ and “make full proof,” or, as one put it, "make good." Everyone who attempts to carry out this injunction will become a personal worker, and per sonal work is the only work which really counts, after all. The greatest élément in our work is the “personal touch,” as it has been expressed. A great need, a great field and a great responsibility. We are running a: sort of rescuë mission among the men of the Oil Fields, the only difference being that we do not have a reg ular hall, but are constantly on the watch for an opportunity to give the Word to “him that is weary,” and there are many unsaved men whom we believe are really weary of the ways of sin. We found a young man 27 yèars old, on one of the big leases, the other day, a sad picture of what sin will do for a man. He is the sole support of a mother, sister and little brother, living in Los Angeles, but he has become almost a wreck through alco holism. Drink has ruined his stomach and he cannot retain food, living on a milk diet He has to work exceptionally hard, for he is a blacksmith, and unless he is soon healed must decline and die, for he
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