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gle tract will be when we stand before the judgment seat o f Christ? “ Go thou and do likewise.” The boys have been having splendid times holding meetings in shops, laundries, car barns and the open air during the past month. Approximate attendance over 500 men each week, who have listened to the clear, simple message o f the cross. Nearly
100 o f these have been personally dealt with and over 2000 definite Gospel tracts distributed by individuals. What shall the harvest be? “ So shall my W ord be that goeth forth out o f my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accom plish that which I please and prb^per in the thing whereto I sent it.”
------------- O ---------------- WORK OF THE BIBLE WOMEN Mrs. T. C. Horton, Supt.
TVÆ' AN Y and varied are the incidents in the daily visitation work o f the Bible Women. Go with one o f them today. In response to a ring at the first house an old man, bright, keen-eyed and garrulous, comes to thé door. He tells us he “has dipped into everything,” and asks do we believe in Swedenborgianism ? We’ tell him that was before oür day and present to him Jesus Christ the Saviour o f all. He listens politely, but with evident incredulity, takes a Gospel o f John and promises to read it. At the next house we hear a story, alas, too common in Los .Angeles, that in their old home they were Christians, but since coming here have neglected God and His ordinances. Recommending a church and Sunday School o f their own denomination in the neighborhood, we leave, noting the number, to give to a worker in that church that a çalLmay be triade on the family. In the next home we are cordially wel comed by an old lady who tells us she is a Christian and has been a member o f the church all her life. A little boy in the home bears witness to the fact that she has trained him in the Scripture. Her daugh ter, a widow, mother o f the little boy, is’ a “movie” actress. When told o f the dan ger o f such a life, she replies, “I can trust my daughter and/we must live any how.” No one answers our ring at the next house. A little boy near tells us‘ “the lady in there is sick in bed and the doors are
locked.” Wondering what may lie behind the closed doors, we leave. W e call next on a young woman .who tells us she is the daughter o f a minister, but has no time for such things now. Her home and children keep her busy. Here is a pretty, attractive home. The mistress o f the home tells us her earliest recollections are o f church and Sunday School. Since coming to Los Angeles, where her husband is employed in the “movie” business, she has not gone nor has she sent her little girl. W e talk with her and she says she will go to church and Sunday School and take the little girl with her. Just one more visit to. a little store, kept by an Albanian who had previously told us that she could not read English, but could read Italian. W e give her a Gospel o f John in Italian, which she receives most grate fully and promises to read. Now we must hurry to a class that is waiting for us in the neighborhood, praying that God will nourish the seed sown in His name, and that it may bring forth fruit for Him.—C. One o f the women in my Bible class has been praying for a certain little woman for two years. God’s appointed time came at last, and one afternoon she came to the class and at the close o f theriessop asked me if I would come to her home for a long talk. She’ was waiting at the hour
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