B ible I nstitute A ctivities T H E MON T H ’S R E V I EW mi..................... ... ..... WORK OF THE BIBLE WOMEN
Mrs. T. C. Horton, Supt.
T N one afternoon’s :calling, the following problems were encountered: Studied Bible in college as text-book; con fused by many isms. Unbeliever, but will put herself in line to prove if Bible is true.. Jewish agnostic; is reading Bible. Unitarian; does not wish to be anything else. Makes husband nervous to attend church; wife acknowledged backslider; asked to -be- excused when called upon again. N'ever could get much out of the Bible; quite indifferent now. Professes to be “trunk” Christian; doubt if she ever was saved.' Holds much spiritual truth which she claims comes to her through visions; verg ing on Spiritism. . Willing to bear her own sins; Pantheist. Backslider; too busy to give God a place. In calling two months ago, I found a little woman who had forsaken her faith to marry a' Roman Catholic. I spoke to her of the finished work of Christ, and her answer was, “I gave my heart to God when I was a girl, but I don’t know what you are talk ing about.” Then she began defending the Catholic Church. I gave her God’s Word and left it to God to bring the increase, seeing her only on the cars now. and then. Two months ago she came into the Bible class, one afternoon when-the lesson was about The. Millennium. As she took her seat I wondered why she had been sent in for that lesson, which seemed so absolutely beyond her, and later I wondered, why I w?s repeating the statement so. often made
to those women, that as God had created things they were all good, but sin had en tered by Satan and they became evil. It was the mess'age she needed to offset some of the lessons she had been learning in Christian Science. A few weeks ago she said to me: “I was never a Christian be fore, but ever since your first call I have bedri troubled.” ' And now she has not only received Christ as her Saviour,' but her Catholie husband has. come to Him too and the home is being transformed; Near the close of an afternoon that seem ed almost fruitless, the worker rang at a certain house. No response, but as she turned to go a little woman appeared around the corner of the house. The worker made the reason of her call known, and the little woman replied: “No, I do not know the Lord, but I just wish that I did!” When it was suggested that we go inside for a few minutes, she replied: “I am so busy I really cannot stop just now, but I would really be glad for you to come soon again.” With a light heart the worker went away, to return at the first opportunity, finding a heart that seemed to have been specially prepared by the Spirit, and only needed to have the way made plain for her to accept the Master as her Lord and Saviour. Did the two afternoons’ work pay? . . At the close of a Bible lesson, a young vvoman—supposed to be a Christian— abruptly put the question: “How do you know you are saved ? I was brought up by Christian parents; to- read the Bible and pray, and at nine years old joined the
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