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How Soul-Winners are Made. The Bible Woman’s class is not only for the purpose of increasing knowl edge ,of the Bible, but also is a means of training in actual soul-winning. A member of one of the classes had been taking care of an old gentleman nearly ninety years of age. He had never ac cepted Christ and was deeply concern ed for his soul, fearing that he had put it off too long. The nurse called sever al Christian workers on the telephone and for some reason no one could come. Upon the return of the Bible Woman to the city an appeal was made for help in dealing with the old gentleman. The Bible Woman went immediately, but found the house full of company which had just arrived. The next morning the same conditions presented them selves and the nurse said helplessly over the telephone, “ Must this old man be lost?” No,” we replied, “ let us try to think what the Lord is telling us by all this.” Then the answer came so plainly, “Why, this nurse is to have the joy of leading this soul to Christ, her self!” Then we gave some simple verses to be used: Eph. 2:8, 9, The gift is of grace and not earned by works. Rom. 6:23, The gift is eternal life. 1 Pet. 1:18, 19. The gift is all bought and paid for. John 1:12. We must do what we do with other gifts—- receive it. The promise was given to have a certain Bible class much in prayer at the very hour of the conver sation. When evening came, the tele phone rang and the nurse said she knew we would be anxious to know the re sults. She had felt a wonderful power during the afternoon, even though she is naturally very diffident and retiring. The old gentleman had listened so at tentively. But just here the nurse stopped to say, “ He wants to tell you, himself.” Then came the quavering voice over the telephone, “ I have ex perienced a great change in my life to day.” This was followed by his expres sion of an earnest desire to see a mem ber of his family saved and gave elo-
BIBLE WOMEN’S WORK BIBLE! WOMEN, Mrs. Lyman Stewart, Superintendent. In this department, fif teen splendid women, assisted by ten v o l unteer workers, are givin g their whole time to the w ork of teaching Bible classes and house-to-house visitation in different sections of the city and surrounding towns. Included in this department also, is the w ork o f the Euodia Club, an organi zation o f Bible C lasses' among the girls o f H igh School age. O HE boys had gathered for the Pocket Testament Club meet ing. They had come early, because there was a foot ball game next day, (and our boys are real boys and love athletics) and they were to review their signals, as most of the Pocket Testament boys play together. There had been a, good deal of noise in the den which had been turn ed over to them, but suddenly a silence, the kind you can cut, fell upon the room, and looking in through the half open door, the Bible woman, waiting for the hour of meeting to come, saw five deeply occupied boys; two on the floor, two on the couch, and one in the depths of a rocking chair, all with open Bible or Testament before them, re viewing the lesson upon which they were to report a few moments later. Not a bit of self-consciousness, not be hind locked doors, or with drawn shades, but openly, in the presence of one another, these boys, most of them of adolescent age, were reading God’s Word. A few moments later, when the others had arrived, and the meeting was about to open, one of the boys ask ed that the boys might be permitted to make the opening and closing prayers. At another meeting one of the boys said, “ Some of the Scout boys say this is a sissy club, but I don’t see anything sissified about God or about studying the Bible,” and a dozen voices chorused “ There isn’t.” And so we are trying to bring these boys to regard the Chris tian life and the study of the Word of God as the normal thing for a boy to do.
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