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have Bible classes, show-a marked improve ment in their growth spiritually, and with it all they are learning to trust God not only for their salvation, but also for their daily needs—work, or anything they are in need of. There is also a great change in their outward appearance. Truly, Christ makes them new creatures indeed. Glory be to His Holy Name!
One o f the young men converted at the Hospital, told how God had delivered him from thè use o f tobacco and testified that by himself he never could have stopped using it, but taking it to God in prayer, the Lord worked the miracle. W e could relate many such instances o f God’s power to save, not only from sin, but also from bad habits. Some o f our converts, with whom we
THE NEGLECTED DISTRICTS By George P. Wicker
T WO years ago the eleventh o f this month we started from Los Angeles to the unreached and neglected fields o f Cal ifornia. How time does fly, especially when one sees so much work ahead to be done. In the past two years we have had many experiences ,and many trials. W e have labored when the thermometer registered 118 degrees in the shade (and no shade) ; we have slept on the top o f our load and listened to the rain drops patter all the night through; we have had our machine wrecked in the mountains nine miles from anywhere; we have been accused by the devil’s gang o f being most everything but what we should be—but it takes all this to make Romans 5 :3 real. You ask, HAS IT PA ID ? Let us answer this by giving you some extracts from letters which we have received from those with whom we have labored, and then you may decide for yourself: “The Lord is blessing our Sunday School. Last Sunday we had sixteen out; * * * I did get so discouraged last summer about the Sunday School, especially when I would drag my little children through the heat so many times and not another soul would show up, but something just seemed to urge me on, and I am so glad that I kept at it.” This was the first Sunday School in this school house in nine years. In another
place, we organized a Sunday .School in a private home (the first Sunday School in the community in twenty-three years). This, ran for several months, until four o f the seven families moved away, yet during the life o f this Sunday School, seven people were converted atid joined a church some sixteen miles away. We might add here that four other Sun day Schools, organized in communities sim ilar to the above, are going on nicely—one especially, where children fourteen.years of age, born and raised in the community, had never before been in Sunday School, has an attendance o f as high as thirty-five on a Sunday afternoon. Now let us look at a different field o f labor, not neglected, near a small city. We held a meeting here and the Lord gave us eighteen souls. We organized a Bible class and following is a .letter from one o f the' members: “W e are still in love with our Bible Class. W e have prayer meeting before the class meets, and last night all prayed except one, and he is not a Christian. Our new convert made such a good prayer and we knew it was from his heart. He was con verted the next Sunday after you left. * * Another has come out for the Lord and he is a great help. He was a backslider and hardened his heart when you came and would not come to hear you, but it is all due
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