King's Business - 1917-11

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THE KING’S BUSINESS

someone by her husband to hear Dr. Tor- rey, and only kept because it was a promise. Then, that evening, an invitation to the Fishermen’s Club, and not dreaming what it would be like, but thinking it a club for a general good time,-the husband accepted and went. He met the Lord. there and went home a saved man. The wife was wakened to hear all about it, “and now,” she continued, “the home is so different, but we do not know much about the Bible.” She was sure of being saved, a long time ago, but knew nothing about surrender or fellowship. Surely this is a home needing much prayer. A lady who travels much writes: “The vision I got in Ephesians at Bible class, last winter, is still with me, and I am tell­ ing it out at every opportunity, as we go from place to place.” earthly priest, for the great High Priest is at God’s right hand in Heaven and she exclaimed the other day: “What would I do if it were not for the precious blood!” Ah, dear soul, but for that we might well despair, but it has washed us from our sins and perfected us forever, and when we know just a little of the infinite value of the blood of Jesus, it makes the heart flow out in worship. Tuberculosis is doing its slow and deadly work, but she is saved. As one thinks of the goodness of God in leading us to repentance, we can well exclaim, “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God!”

prayer and seemed eager to know about both, so we went to work as if with a little child to explain the way. She came to Bible class and soon gave marked evi­ dence of receiving the Word in great power and faith, so simple that her presence was a real inspiration to both teacher and class. Soon she was bringing in requests for prayer, believing we had only to ask in Jesus’ name to receive. We wish we could picture her face when she brought word of her first answer to prayer. It brought great joy to every heart. A strange young woman came into one of the Bible classes one day and when invited to come again, replied, “I certainly will, for I want to know all I can about the Bible,” and then she told her story. Recently married, things not going at all right in the home; a promise made to M OST of this month, our labors have taken us through the Midway-Sunset Fields. Part of the time we spent in Oil Center. Everywhere souls seem interested in the truth of the Lord’s coming. We have caught a few souls for God. One lady who was led to the Lord through a visit to her door over a year ago, is now dying. She was then a Catholic and in very great dark­ ness, but the light of the knowledge of the glory of God has shone in her heart, and as we read to her the 23rd Psalm and the fourteenth chapter of John, she-exclaimed: “How beautiful! How precious these things are to me now.” She does not need any

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By Frank J. Shelley

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