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rpHE camp was not a success. Six days, these youngsters, manifest ing very little interest in the mes sages from the Word of God, had pro ceeded to tear the landscape to pieces. Most of them were demand ing to go home at once, and not even wait until Sunday. Three had al ready run away. All the counselors agreed that it was best to close be fore more damage was done. Why such a failure after the suc cess of last year? These boys came to us from “across the tracks.” Many of them were unsaved, and few of them attended Sunday school. Their behavior was wild and woolly, be speaking the undisciplined homes. A year ago, it had looked hopeless too, but ere the week was half over, so many of them had been led to Christ that their behavior, and the entire camp atmosphere had been changed for the better. Truly it had been a miracle of grace. But, alas, for this year’s camp! There had been no conversions. The conduct of the boys could only be labeled presimian (if such concep tion were possible). Why had the Lord failed us this time, when we had so earnestly sought His bless ing? “Nevertheless . . . will I not . . . suffer my faithfulness to fail” (Psa. 89:33). The camp was about to break up and to be proclaimed a failure. Yet we knew that the Lord, by His mira cle power, could still accomplish more than He did last year, thus proving that victory was through His Spirit and not by our efforts. We asked the boys how many wanted to go home that evening. Half of them responded; the re mainder were equally determined to stay until Sunday. The latter group included all the big boys from a Bible Church — and they were all saved. We held a counselors’ prayer meeting, after which we decided to take home the little fellows who pre ferred to go and to keep the better group. But still we had to admit that the camp was a failure. All the boys who knew not Christ were going home unsaved and unchanged. It occurred to us that if we could fire the older boys with a passion for the lost ones who were due to go home, something might yet be ac complished. Some of these older fel lows were already adolescents, and if they could be inspired, they were at a good age to become personal workers. JUNE, 1947
And it worked! In answer to our united prayers, the Lord gave them such a passion for souls, that later on I found seven of their number on their knees in Cedar Lodge, pleading for the souls of those little chaps. It was a great sight to see them from fourteen-year-old Robert down to Billy, aged nine, asking the Lord to save the others. They were all from a Bible Church; they knew all the answers in Scripture, but never before had they been burdened for souls. There was reticent young Wayne, too. He was-actually praying aloud, but for some reason he felt too unworthy to speak to other boys about salvation. The reason came out—he had a feeling of guilt be cause of a habit which he could not overcome. He was shown how Jesus could cleanse his guilt, and his smile of confidence returned with his vic tory. One of the big boys failed to enter the prayer group. He sat in the cor ner out on the porch and cast long ing and troubled looks at the prayer "roup. Plainly Clay was under con viction—but why? Was he unsaved? No, he still had his assurance of sal vation. Then he sobbed out his story of sinning since he was saved, and his desire to do better. Blessing came his way in confession and cleansing. Now little Billy wasn’t a big boy like the rest, but he knew Christ, as all the Bible Church gang did. His big ears stuck out from his head in such an odd way that he looked like a curious little mouse, as he bowed his head and prayed with all of his heart. The big boys got up from their knees, and made their campaign plans. With each carrying a Bible under his arm, they set out in every direction over camp. For the next few hours you could see them lead ing the little fellows, one by one, to the tabernacle, where they explained the way of salvation to them. They became so zealous that some of them even forgot to write down the names of the new converts. As best we could judge, there were nineteen pro fessions of faith that afternoon! In checking up on their work, we found that they had exercised good judg ment. They exalted Christ rather than self; they used the Sword of the Spirit; they frequently asked, “How do you know you are saved? Can you prove it?” Before the station wagon arrived to take the little fel lows home that evening, there was not a single boy who did not profess
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