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you know the Lord?” The reply was: “No, I do not suppose I do; but I’d like to.” She was very willing to remain for a little talk. Many things had hindered her all her life, but as the plan of salva tion was unfolded, she saw it plainly for the first time, and received it as simply as a child. Ju st one week from th a t day she was taken very ill, and after a few days, lay unconscious until her death. May not this be a lesson to saved ones, as well as the unsaved? Children May Know H is W ill The relation of the Christian boy to the “movies” had been under discussion at the boys’ section of th e Pocket T esta ment Club, and the teacher, feeling the importance of training the boys to settle these questions in the presence of God, had withheld h er judgment and told the boys th a t they must settle th a t question w ith God. There seemed to be an im pression th a t the “Mission Play” was a little different from other theatricals and th a t it was something like going to church to attend it. On this point the teacher felt she should give a little en lightenment and assured the boys th a t it was ju st like any other production given for the purpose of making money, and th at there was really nothing to lead peo ple to Christ in it. The m atter was drop ped there, so far as discussion was con cerned, but when in the presence of God, it was made a subject of earnest prayer. Some weeks later one of th e boys from a worldly home was a guest1in the home of the teacher when, w ithout any “lead ing conversation,” he said, “M rs .---------, I had a chance to go to the Mission Play today, bu t I turned it down.”: God is able to teach even the children H is will for them. The P ocket T estam ent Club Recently a little Jewish lad dropped in to the home where our Pocket Testament Club was holding its meeting. He came to talk about athletics, but instead, he found a dozen boys intently listening to the reading of Pilgrim ’s Progress. Bach boy had previously told something he had read during the week from the Bible, and the Bible woman had unlimited oppor tunity to make comments. Most of these boys are Christians, and in meeting the battles and questions which every Chris tian boy must solve, we thought Bunyan’s wonderful story would help them. For months th e little Jewish boy has been in terested in -the Testaments the other boys carry, and has once or twice slipped away to church, though he knows dire punishment will follow, should his or
thodox parents learn of it. However, Pilgrim ’s Progress is to the mother only a story, and so the boy has permission to attend the Club meeting, have supper w ith the boys and hear the reading th at follows. There will be enough Scripture there to show the boy the way of salva tion and Jesus Christ as the Jew ’s Mes siah, and we are confidently claiming this boy for the Lord. The boys were un animous in adm itting to “honorary mem bership” a boy who, because of his par ents’ objection, could not carry a Testa ment. B ating th e Word In one of the Bible classes, several have been memorizing a verse from each chapter studied in the book of John and reciting them at the lesson hour. One member, who had been away because of serious illness in the home, being asked on her retu rn if she were ready to give her verses, said: “Not today, but I would like to give a testimony about them.” She said she had had such a blessing in the study of them. They had ju st met her need, and when she came to the fifteenth chapter, and took for her verse th e fourth, it was so especially blessed to her th a t she had been saying it over and over each day, and when illness came to the home, she felt she had been pre pared to meet it, and God has since been wonderfully answering prayer for her. “Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.” Jer. 15:16. a » a » SHOP WORK M. H. Reynolds, Supt. car barns, for instance, while some of the men are busy making out schedules, others are waiting for th eir cars to leave. During one of these hours in th e midst of the rush of work, carrying on the serv ice seemed very hard and without ap parent result. The meeting was closed and the crew were starting out when one of the workers passed out some tracts, and feeling especially led to speak to one of the men who had b.een listening, he handed him a tract, but th e man said, “Sorry, I cannot talk with you, but I have to go now,” and left. The following day, the worker who handed this man a trac t was standing ERVICES in th e shop work ofttimes seem unfruitful and apparently without results, in asmuch as the work is carried on under difficulties. In the
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