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The Shop Work
R. C. Lewis, T> ROTUER Û ;| U. VVlITTli, who mc- cepted the LPrdiJesus three years ago, and who for some time has faithfully given the gospel message to his fellow workmen- amid jeers and- taunts, was badly burned on May the Sth,-living only a few hours!- Dur ing the last hours he testified to his ' faith in the Word of his-Lord. O ne of the boys who accepted the Lord Jesus Christ : as his. /personal Saviour in one of the shop meetings and who had in the short time' that he had' remained in the shop witnessed , faithfully/for the Lord, be fore leaving fot- Australia sent the worker “In the shorf. time that J attended your meetings at the; shop.I have only this to say, that you have rhàde a-different lad of me. May God give ydu -His blessing as I give mine. I am remembering you in my pray ers and in my thoughts .—Will Hersch.” E ighteen Y ears Too L ate . One who had been saved by the' wonderful grace of God longed to go back to the scenes of his for mer life and. the comrades of his former days and tell- them of the Christ that had come into his life. The opportunity was at last presented. , ' Going into the .office! .of Senator E., he in quired for his old, friend, “Chuck.” Taking him by the hand .he told him of his-salva tion. The friend turned to him with this reply, “I am a- Christian âlsq. It behooved the following note: “Dear Mr. I.—. . 7
Superintendents 'me, to become one for I am married and have a little girl who can ask more ques tions of me in five minutes about the things of eternity than T can answer in a month. So I undertook to study the Word pf God and united with the church with my’wife: I traveled eighty thousand miles last year and instead of spending my evenings in the lobbies of the hotels or out drinking, as was my custom, I went to my room and took out the old Book and got the Strength needed for my daily life.” The inquirer took, him by the hand and praised the Lord with him for the change. They had both been members of a club of one hundred members who had wasted their time in the frivolities of the social life, each month ending with a grand balk Inquiring concerning nine or ten of the old members, he was told of their present occupations and that; each one of them was now a Christian.' “But what about this one and that one and the others ?” the inquirer asked. His face changed and he said, “If you will come with me:out. to the cemetery I will show you their graves—Christless graves.” He had come, lo tell them pf Christ, but was eightëen years top late. Conditions might have stood and did stand in the way of his going back sooner, though one feels that nothing should have been allowed to intervene between them and his telling them of the, One who had saved him, the One who was. feady and. waiting to re deem them. , He went—but he was eighteen years’„too; late.
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