BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES
The Shop Work In the shops, facto ri es, car barn s and fire engine houses. hundreds of men a re found whose circumstances fo rm an almost insurmountable bar ri er to their attendance upon regul a,· church services, and among tl-:ese our evangeli sts hold Gospel meetings on week-cl ays and press the cla ims of t he Lord Jesus Ch ri st upon men, many of v.· hom become Ch r; stians of the sturdies t type . Seamen's Work Our Pacific ports a re teeming with the t raffic of the world. Shi ps hai ling from South America , Mexico, E urope, Asia , China, J apan, Austra lia and the island s of the sea, with crews. immigrants, t rave lers of a ll races, pass to and fro from all parts of the g lobe. Recogn izing this g reat oppo r tunity and respons ibility, we have entered on t he task of evangeli zing thi s cos111 opolitan throng. \ Ve are all obli gated to the sailor. H is li fe is one of pri vations, peculi ar hard ship and per il , physicall y, morally ancl spiritua ll y. No class is more neglected; none more respons ive to and grate ful for our efforts . The work is in charge of an especially effic ient and co111- petent Superint enden t, upon whose labo rs the blessing of God has rested in abundant measure. T he aim is to reach every man on board with the Gospel, and to provide the111 with the Scri ptures and other Chri st ian literature fr ee of charge. Ser vices are held whenever and wherever poss;ble on all vessels. and many personal intervi ews are had. The worker does not wait on shore fo r the men to come to him, but himself boards the vessels. He does not confit,e hi s work to the sailors, but has had the joy of dealing with many officers in the cabins, and has g iven t he Go pel to t hou sand s of passengers from Japan. China and Ko rea, en route to South A111er ica . T hu s the work is a combinati on of home and fo re ign se rvice,-Ameri cans. E ngli shmen. Hawai ian s, Negroes, Span iard s, Greeks, Italians, Fi li pinos . Norwegians, S iamese, Chi nese, Japanese, all reached withi n two weeks, and all hav ing the message, either by lip or tract, in thei r own language .
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