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thought he was a man who would help other men. I came in all the way from -------- to see him.” We found that he was a trained nurse, a graduate of Bellevue, but a slave to the drink habit and full of unrest and dissatisfaction. He wanted neither bed nor meal (something rather unusual at Yoke fellows’ Hall), but desired to be freed from this terrible habit which had gripped him. He said he had never really received the whole Gospel. We are confident that the location of his belief changed from the head to the heart that night, for as side by side we knelt in the presence of God, he confessed Christ to be his own personal Saviour. We were somewhat late in start ing the meeting, but a soul is worth more than a meeting, and a man clothed and in his right mind more than a few minutes more of singing. Our friend came in seek ing to be delivered from drink, and if we are not much mistaken in the man’s sin cerity he received not only freedom from all sins but the gift of eternal life. “The Gift of God Is Eternal Life.” hope. But there is now as always “the rem nant according to the election of grace”— earnest souls who long for God, the living God. To all such the promise of God is sure. “He will fulfill the desire of them that fear Him.” A short time ago while visiting at the County Hospital I found a beautiful Russian Jewess, who listened with unusual interest as I sought to show her the types and prophecies concerning the Mes siah, reminding her of an old interpreta tion held by some orthodox Jews which teach that there will be two—Messiah ben Josef and Messiah ben David—the one a suffering and the other a reigning Messiah. I showed her how Messiah must already have come, according to Daniel 9:26, hav ing suffered a violent death and been buried according to Isaiah 53:8-9, so fulfilling the types; that He must haye risen from the dead, Psalms 16:10 with Zechariah 12:10;
about Peter on the Sea of Galilee, how he walked on the water as long as his eyes were upon the Lord, and that the moment he looked on the waves and away from ' Christ he began to sink. This touched his heart, for had he not been a Peter? Pray for the workers. We need wisdom to know our man in giving him the right Scripture, in presenting Christ intelligently; grace to keep sweet, to have patience, and to keep tender-hearted; and power to so depend upon the Holy Spirit and so yield our lives to His control that God will see fit to honor us by sending in men in greater num bers with hearts prepared for the seed sow ing and to bring the promised harvest. I t was drawing near the time to start the meeting one night when there came a rap at the door and a man entered, asking for Mr. Mullen. When told that he was out of the city, he asked, “Isn’t there someone else here then who can talk with me? I passed by this place last Sunday and heard Mr. Mullen speaking on the street and * I ' OO often as we go about among the Jewish people we find great ignorance of the Old Testament Scriptures. The Bible is to most Jews a sealed book. A very amusing conversation took place one day in a little Jewish shop, occupied by a tailor and a shoemaker. Some reference having been made to our first parents, the ,tailor assured me that Adam and “Eva” were Jews, did I not know that? He be came quite excited over it and indignant as well when I didn’t agree with him and ap pealed to the shoemaker, who was equally positive that the Jews were the first people and that not only were Adam and Eve Jews but Noah also and all the rest. T he average Jew’s knowledge of Mes sianic prophecy is, of course, very limited, being usually little more than a forlorn
The Work Among the Jews Mrs. L. Manson, Superintendent
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