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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
H E L P E R S FO R HUNAN WORK Our K in g ’s Business friends will be glad to know th a t Mr. and Mrs. W alter Steven and Mr. and Mrs. Chester Kutledge who sailed for China in August have arrived in safety. A le tte r recently received from Mr. Steven says: “ You will be glad to know th a t we have had, thus far, a good trip. Some gracious friends in Seattle made our stay a g reat deal easier th an it could otherwise have been. Indeed every where we have gone folks have been most helpful and kind. We have held a service in the second class dining-room each of the Sunday evenings of our trip , apparently the only C hristian service held on board. L a st'S u n d a y evening I got the Japanese Salvation Army Captain to come in w ith us, and. as there were a few Japanese here, he read the same Scripture in his language th a t I had chosen fo r the English read ing, John 10.” These dear friends are going to assist Dr. Keller, th e Superintendent of our Bible In stitu te in Changsha. They will spend the first year a t th e Language School. D t . K eller has been g reatly in need of helpers, and we commend these dear friends to our readers fo.r prayer. Also pray th a t God may enable us to en large the boat work which has been so graciously blessed. A boat can be equipped and m aintained for one year for $5,000.00. m . . ato H i DEPENDABLE PO INTERS We are told th a t in the prairies of South America there grows a flower th a t always inclines in th e same direction. The traveler may lose his way while cross ing one of these prairies, and he may have n either compass nor ch art by which to steer his.course; but, turning to this lowly flower, he w ill find a guide on whieh he can implicitly rely; for no m atter how heavily the rains may fall, or how violently the winds may blow, its leaves and petals invariably droop tow ard the north. If, w hilst we live, we subserve a purpose analogous to th a t of th is humble flower, we shall not have lived in vain. I f we live to God, if we tu rn to Him in faith and love and prayer and service—as the prairie flower tu rn s tow ard the north— some, seeing our good works, our comely life, w ill be led to glorify our F ath er who is in heaven.—F. E. Marsh.
received'Jesus as her Saviour. She said, ‘‘In a way, I th ink I have always be lieved, but never was it made plain so I really understood it un til in Bible class this year; then I really saw and heard for the first time and. now I have received H im ,” and through the smile the tears came thick and fast. C o nv erted on H e r B irth d a y A t the close of one of the Lyceum Club meetings, the inv itation to come to Christ not having been responded to, the girls were preparing to leave for their homes. The message th a t nigh t had been a h eart searching one. The speaker had dwelt on the subject, ‘‘The believer a garden en closed. ’’ One of the workers, burdened for the souls of th e young women, asked one to whom she was introduced whether her h eart was a garden. She replied, ‘‘I hope so.” This reply did not satisfy the worker and she then asked the definite question as to whether the young lady had accepted Christ as her personal Sav iour, to which she replied, ‘‘N o.” The worker sought to present Christ on the cross to th e young woman and asked her to accept Him, but she refused. The worker then told her, very solemnly, th a t she would go out of the 'door of th a t room, eitherpsaved or lost; and also suggested th a t she tell the Saviour th a t she would not come to Him th a t .night. The Lord spoke to the h eart of th e young woman, for a change came over her, and she said, ‘‘I w ill accept H im .” ‘‘N ow ,” said the worker, ‘‘be sure and’ -put the date down in your Bible so th a t you will know when you came to C h rist.” She said, ‘‘I w ill always be able to remember the date, fo r th is is my b irth d a y .” A C hu rch M em ber, b u t U nsaved One Sunday evening a young lady re sponded to th e invitation given by the preacher for those who were unsaved to come to Christ. She bravely came to the fro n t and on being asked by a worker if she had ever tak en Christ as her p er sonal Saviour she said, “ No, I ’m a mem ber of a church, bu t I d on’t know how to come to C h rist.” I t was the w o rk er’s great privilege to show her from the Word of God ju st w hat is m eant by com ing to Christ. As she read John 1:12, Isa. 53:6, Acts 2:36, 1 John 5:11-13, she said, “ I ' see now. ’’ She confessed her sins to God and then made her first public confession of Christ by saying to the preacher, “ I have tak en Jesus as my p er sonal Saviour.” An evidence of the genuineness of her conversion has been m anifested in le tte rs w ritten to h er sister telling of the step she has tak en and urg ing her sister to read the Word of God.
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