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will doubt that the entrance o f the Word will give her light? Here is another case: Arriving at a ranch house, we found five women and men. A ftact was offered but they declared they could not read. “Well, then,” we said, “ we will tell you the mission o f these tracts,” and began to talk Gospel to them. O f course they listened although with some suspicion. W e left a Gospel o f John and some .tracts with them, saying ' “ Perhaps some one will read them for you some day.” Two weeks later we called again. The women heard me talking to the men out side the house and all came out to listen. When the tracts were given out the women, too, wanted some, thus showing they were interested, and that their fear or sus picion had taken wings and flown. These people had but just recently arrived from Mexico and were full o f superstition and ignorance. They truly need our sympathy and prayers. W e wish the readers o f T h e K in g s B u s in e s s would hold up in their T 1 HOSE interested in this department o f the work, will remember that in a recent issue o f T h e K in g ' s B u s in e s s we spoke o f our desire to have a room located in the center o f the Jewish quarter, where we might go aside with men whom we met on the street and talk to them o f their personal relation to God. Our readers will be glad to know that such a room has been secured. God has, in answer to prayer, given us the necessary means to pay for the equipment and the first month’s rent for a place o f this kind, and we are going along in faith that He will continue to supply this need. This place will be used both as a Reading Room and a Mission. It will be open after noons with some one in charge who knows and loves the Jewish people, and is able to prove from the Jewish Scriptures that the
prayers these'benighted ones at our doors that they would indeed give entrance to the Word, that they might become enlight ened. On a recent trip to Camp Kearny, we had the joy o f seeing twenty-nine o f the soldier boys converted. To God be all the glory! (N ote: A request has come to us from the Y. M. C. A. headquarters at Camp Kearny, that Mr. Bender give his full time for two or three months to work among the Spanish-speaking soldiers there, as he has proven to be so thoroughly qualified for this work. Mr. Bender was for many years a missionary in Central America, and has three special qualifications for this w ork : (1) He knows the Word o f God. (2) He knows the Mexican and his language. (3) He has a definite love for souls. His pur pose will be not only to win the men, but to train some o f them so that they will do evangelistic work among their comrades, in the camp and on the field.) Messiah, long expected by them, has come, and that Jesus o f Nazareth is He. Bibles, Testaments, Gospels, tracts, books, etc., in Hebrew, Yiddish and English will be placed in the reading room for the free use o f those who drop in. Gospel services will be held evenings, ser mons being' preached both in Yiddish and English. So, in these varied ways, we are seeking like the Apostle Paul o f old, to be “all things to all men that we might by all means save some.” The neighborhood in which this Mission is located is the most orthodox Jewish dis trict in the city, and if the Jews have opposed the work which is being carried on in our “Mission Home” which is con ducted in a very quiet manner, we may be sure the work o f the “Mission” which will have more publicity will arouse much more
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WORK AMONG THE JEWS
James A. Vans, Supt.
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