August 1924
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
499
WORK AMONG THE JEWS James A. Vaus, Supt.— Bible classes and Personal W ork, Street Meet ings and Semi-m onthly Mass Meetings for Jews o f Los Angeles. HE Seventh-Day Adventists are in these days mak ing special efforts to reach the Jew with their propaganda. Having common ground with them in the Sabbath question, they quite readily secure a hearing, and through tracts, pamphlets and magazines printed in the Yiddish language they are finding it com paratively easy to proselyte the Jews. A young Jewish convert to Christianity quite naturally is ready to listen to the arguments of these “Modern-legalistic Galatians,” and persisted attempts have been made to side track these new converts. On one occasion a Seventh-Day Adventist woman called on the writer with the zealous though misguided intention of converting him to their views, and finding this more difficult than she anticipated, and after being warned not to attend our Jewish meetings, where she had been causing disturbances and sowing dis cord among the converts, she shook her fist in the face of the writer and shouted as she left: “ I will steal every Jew ish, convert you have.” ' A Jewess, the daughter of a Rabbi, whom we were priv ileged to lead out of Seventh-Day Adventism, had the joy of seeing her husband, on the night of the Jewish Passover a year ago, accept Christ as his Messiah and Saviour. They have since then worked together for the salvation of some of their own brethren according to the flesh. They have been quite interested in a certain Jewish fam ily in the neighborhood to whom they have had opportunity of telling the story of their conversions. This unconverted Jewish wife was at first quite antago nistic, though she has since become more interested. As time went on these two families exchanged a number of visits which God used to deepen their interest in Christian ity. One day with her husband this Jewess called at the home of her Hebrew-Christian friends, and it proved a good opportunity for once more urging the necessity of deciding definitely for Christ. Some Seventh-Day Adventist acquaintances had chosen the same time for a visit at the home of these Hebrew- Christians. On learning that this Jewish wife was earn estly considering the claims of Christ they immediately took matters into their own hands and began to urge the Sabbath question to the exclusion of all else. That a soul was in the balance seemed not to trouble them,”— their duty as they saw it was to press the Sabbath keeping question, for none (according to them) could be saved apart from that. In spite of frequent interruptions the way of salvation was made clear with the happy result that this Jewess, before leaving, professed acceptance of Christ as Saviour. Her husband seemed not “ far from the Kingdom” him self, and will, we trust, shortly imitate his wife’s example, in confession of Christ as the Messiah of Israel. BIOLA HALL WORK David Cant, Supt.— Our City Mission for Men in the center o f Los Angeles. Meetings continuous from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. Noon-day Prayer Meeting. HERE is a note of praise and gratitude which we desire to ring out to our gracious Lord as we look over the report for the week just closed. Forty men and boys have made their profession and first confession of the Lord Jesus Christ, the result of hard, personal, hand-picked trophies from the world, flesh
and the devil, while we can add three backsliders who had been filled with their own ways but have now turned their faces to Him whose love is as great as His power. This is the known result of several hundred interviews, the distribution of many hundreds of tracts, numerous Gos pels of John, besides two hundred or more messages from our entrance, and God alone knows the volume of prayer constantly going up not only from Biola Hall but all over where friends are praying. We know when the sifting time comes, even this number will be reduced and many will no longer walk with Him but we have every reason to praise God even though the preaching of the Cross grows increas ingly difficult as the enemy of souls, knowing the time is short, heats the fires sevenfold for the patient winner of souls. Many-are the encouraging signs as the spirit of lawless ness becomes more manifest for numbers of our old con verts have returned to give thanks and assure us they are happy on the way, growing in grace and witnessing a good confession, so we take fresh courage and press forward for the prize. Biola Hall is becoming more of a center, a rallying place for the laborer, for here the wise worker slips in to secure supplies and then, loaded with prayer, tracts, Gospels and portions of the Word, goes forth to sow the seed beside all waters. Here are Bible classes for the man who does not speak our language, and the Gospel in printed form for all nations. Here the weary business man can drop in during his lunch hour and receive the Water of Life and the Bread from heaven. Here they can step out from the rush and hurry of the street, quietly slip in the prayer room and after a little talk go out strengthened with heart warmed to meet the world, the flesh and the devil. Here the maimed, the halt and the blind, Who seek only the loaves and the fishes can get help and also have the Gospel preached unto them. Here the man coming out of jail to face the world, is a frequent visitor; and here the lad away from home without a job or friend, can always find the. latter when he opens his heart to receive the Friend of sinners, and as the various groups of young men from our big bee-hive, the Bible Insti tute, make Biola Hall their great central rallying point from which they pour out the message of God’s dear Son and while the shadows lengthen and the day of all days is nearing we watch and wait and pray and occupy. “ But Lord ’tis for Thy coming we wait; The sky not the gra,ve is our goal O trump of the angel! O voice of the Lord! Blessed hope, blessed rest of the soul.” gfe gfe WORK IN THE SHOPS Marion H. Reynolds, Supt.— Meetings Held in Shops, Factories, Car- Barns and Fire-Engine Houses in Los Angeles. Despite the fact that we are holding a large number of meetings each week here, arrangements have been made whereby we can hold services in other towns. A few weeks ago a truck load of men went with us to Colton, Calif., where there are some four hundred men working in the Pacific Fruit Express shops. As the whistle blew, men stood at the time-clock, passing a tract to each man, as they came through the house, to punch out. Promptly at 11:45 the meeting started, and one of the largest groups of fellows to whom we have ever preached stood before us and heard the Gospel as it was preached.
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