THE KING’S BUSINESS
987
church and Sunday School, and who to es cape their parents’ prayers and pleadings to accept Christ have left home to “follow the sea.” But the prayers follow them, and in some unexpected place God confronts them with the message they have tried to evade. “That is just what father always told me,” is often the answer, and their stiff-necked attitude is, many times, changed into a silent listening. When the worker brings out the fact that God does not force them to accept Christ against their will, I T hasn’t been all sowing in the shops and barns during the past month; we have been gratefully.pleased to see some reap ing. No sooner had we stepped into one of the barns a couple of weeks ago than a shining faced man greeted us with the glad news that he was just leaving his job as motor- man and starting for Arizona to devote the rest of his life to definite Christian work in that needy field. Many a heart-to-heart talk we have had together, and his deep experiences in God’s school of training have not only fitted him to hear, bull to respond to the urgent call. Would to God more of our boys-might hear and'heed the sum mons to buy up the precious opportunities, and thus "be rich toward God through all eternity. Will you not lay hold upon One who is mighty that there may be clear and definite separation for aggressive service in a field which calls for earnest, consecrated laborers ? In fhis same barn we noticed the eyes of one of our boys fixed upon us with deep interest throughout the meeting. Somehow you can always tell when a man is taking in the message; onq usually has so much more liberty in speaking under such circum stances. Making bur way over to him, bringing the message and invitation home more personally, he said: “Do you know,
but that He recognizes man to be a free moral agent, and wants a decision of the heart, and a willing mind. They see that the worker is not there to “drum religion into them,” but just to show the beauty of Christ—to present Him, as He is, most de sirable. First hostile and with a set will, then wondering and finally accepting Christ, was the attitude of a young wireless opera tor who now rejoices in Christ as His per sonal Saviour. you tell me these things just as my dear mother has done so many times, during these many years. I am sure you are right, but—rwell, no, I have' never definitely re ceived Jesus Christ as my own personal Saviour. That point of decision and the yielding of my will to Him, has never be fore been So forcibly pressed home to my heart and conscience.” Then the question was put to him: “Can you here and now, of your own free will, apart from any pressure save from the Spirit’s pleading, receive the Lord Jesus Christ as the One who bore in His own body on Calvary’s tree the sins of all who truly from the heart come unto God by Him, and then go out to: confess' Him before men as your per sonal Saviour and Lord?” Quietly we just waited. There- was the inward struggle as the adversary sought to have him put off for some more convenient season the great transaction, but with uplifted heart we wait ed and then the hand gripped ours and the simple, “I will,” brought peace to another heart, and joy in the presence of the angels in Heaven. We bowed our heads and in the noise and strife of tongues all about us, we told it to Jesus. We left him with his bright face to take the good news to the wife and dear mother who will so largely share in the reward of that day’s work. They don’t all come so easy, though. Some
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