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or three weeks from some of the camps, the people have asked why we had not visited them more frequently, thus evidencing their appreciation of our visits and their hunger for the truth. This, indeed, is a healthful sign, for the Word of God says, “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.” Therefore we have great reason to praise God for the tokens above mentioned. At the same time it is a call to more prayer on the part of all praying friends for the stranger within our gates.
Another note of praise, is the faithful ness of the several families who were con verted some months ago—all testifying to the blessing of God upon their lives, and saying that it is better every day. During the past month we have found a large settlement of about three hundred families for whom nothing was being done, and they were so grateful for our visits and talks to them. Having so many places to visit, we are unable to visit them as fre quently as we would like, and have been encouraged when after an absence of two
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WORK IN TJIE SHOPS
David Cant, Supt.
W HEN we were invited to take charge of the neighborhood prayer meetings, in connection with the Sunday Campaign, although much pressed with many calls, we could not well refuse, especially as no one else responded. We were very fortunate in being thrown among those who knew how to take hold of God in believing prayer, and God was pleased to place His seal at the very beginning upon these special meet ings by giving us a soul—a fine young man just on the eve of leaving for the front. At our last and largest meeting, we were constrained to give the invitation. No one, however, responded, although throughout the evening our interest and prayers were largely centered in the fine, manly son of our Christian host, who was on thé eve of leaving home with our liberty boys. As the ' guests filed out, we managed to be left alone with this strapping young lad. The opportunity so earnestly prayed for had come, and with the spirit’s help, we pressed upon him the great importance of an immediate heart-belief and of receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Sav iour. There was a little of the usual side
fencing, but one by one his objections were lovingly met with the Word of God. Finally nothing seemed in the way, but an unwil lingness to yield then and there. We asked if he were willing to be made willing and assenting to this we then knelt, inviting him to join us in prayer to God to be made willing. Then the wonderful thing-occurred; just as soon as the will consented to bend the knee, all the unwillingness was instantly swept away, and the willingness asserted itself. We couldn’t refrain from asking him how he felt, as a “thrilling experience,” before faith was even in operation, had been one of his main objections. “I feel as if I would like to go right out this very minute and preach a sermon,” was the reply, and as. father and son embraced each other, tears of joy were in the father’s eyes and were not very far from the surface in Billy’s strong, marily face, struggling for control. How much easier for those loved parents to bid him goodbye and God speed! Now they had the blessed assurance of all meeting again when the din and strife of life’s last battle would vanish away in God’s long day of peace; when, face to face, they
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