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w hat could be done on a ship like th a t bearing Viscount and Lady Furness, Countess D.—% as well as captains and doctors. The p arty was ashore sight seeing most of th e time, and, afte r prayer, it was decided to leave a t least th e printed page on board. So a n ea t little package w ith a sho rt personal note was addressed and given to each one of the party soon leaving for England by way of th e P anam a Canal. It was th e best th a t could be done and w ith prayer we left everything to Him. We felt th a t as each one of th e p arty would read the le tte r, then open th e package and find th e Gospel in print, God could speak and would speak to each one. The trim vessel left, and during th e long trip th e testimony He placed th ere could not fail a t ’ th e very least to be w itnessing for Him. The yacht went to England, and th e re one of th e party, Lady F u rn ess, th e wife of th e owner of the boat, became ill, was operated upon, and la t er went to th e shores of the Mediter ranean. She grew worse and finally died on board th e same yacht and then came th e sad scene, a bu rial service a t sea. A sho rt service and the body of one of the w ealthiest women of England was slowly lowered into th e sea. The worker does no t know w hether or not th e lady was a Christian. The good accomplished by th e books including the neat little Pocket T estam ents is not known, b u t a t least th is precious soul for whom Christ died, had the message and who could foresee th a t death should tak e away one of th e p arty in such a way SO' soon? This is w ritten th a t friends m ight pray th a t th e others of th e party may find th e peace th a t He alone can give. D istributing L ite ra tu re Pays. The distribution of literatu re has so often proved a wonderful help, and has so often been th e means of conversion th a t we look for definite resu lts rig h t along and are often cheered by th e out come. Often the books left are the means of awaking a soul to its need of Christ and often, too, God leads the worker in a wonderful way to some one receptive to th e Word or some one need ing help. On a Japanese freigh ter we m et one of the clerks whom we had met on th e same vessel in th e n o rth ern port a year ago. A fter a few m inutes con versation we found th a t he was not a Christian, b u t unusually responsive to th e Word, w anting to read th e verses
himself. He seemed very much in earn est and ready for th e tru th , and made a beautiful decision for Christ in th a t -little cabin. The worker offered him a copy of “ Calvary’s •Cross” in English, b u t looking a t th e book, he said th a t he had read it. Then it was discovered th a t th e man had received th is book a year ago on the same ship, and had been studying it as the Holy Spirit dealt w ith him. DR. FRENCH E. OLIVER’S WORK During Ja n u ary and F ebruary, 1912, Dr. Oliver conducted a Union Taberna cle Campaign in Butler, Pa. There were nearly 4500 decisions recorded. In April, 1921, a comm ittee of laymen headed by Mr. Templeton, one of the leading business men of B u tler and a convert of th e g reat campaign of 1912, and Mr. Charles T routm an, a capitalist of Butler,- organized the Evangelistic Conference. These men were greatly helped by Rev. Ketcham , pastor of th e first Bap tis t Church, a pastor who stands for sound doctrine and preaches w ith con viction and power to crowds a t every service in his church. The people of B u tler showed g reat in te rest in th e lectures on prophetic subjects. Dr. Oliver spoke on “W ar in Heaven,” “The Mark of th e Beast,” “The League of Nations a,nd Prophecy,” and “ Signs of th e Anti-christ.” The rem arkab le re sponse of young men and women to the call for life service was very gratifying. The people of B u tler are growing dis gusted w ith th e silly sentim entalism of some m inisterial “world fixers.” They are beginning to realizer th a t law, edu cation, invention, a rt, science, ethical eu ltu re and modern theology cannot tak e the place of the Blood shed on the cross of Calvary. Paonia, Colorado An Evangelistic Conference in Pao nia, Colorado, was conducted by Dr. Oliver for two weeks during May, 1921. The Methodist pastor, Rev. Mr. Weeks, gave public testimony th a t the Confer ence seemed specially held for his own benefit. A part from th e scores who accepted Christ, the definite life recruits were numerous, several of whom are coming to th e Bible In stitu te in Septem ber.
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