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REVIEW OF THE MONTH’S ACTIVITIES B y B ib le In s titu te W o rk e rs
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WORK IN THE SHOPS David Cant, Supt.
TATE were telling some of the clear * * friends the other day that one of the many happy results of Christian service was in just watching the growth and development in the lives of those who have known the Lord Jesús Christ but a com paratively short time, ánd how very keen they are in witnessing out in the great harvest field when once the Word of God gets into the heart; but after all, isn’t it but natural that where there is real life in the soul, there necessarily follows the cry, “Come and see a Man who told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ ?” The poor old sad world is groaning^ beneath its weight of war, and the cry is “no slackers,” and surely God is calling still louder, as we draw nearer and still nearer to the close of His day of grace, for whole-hearted devotedness, and we do indeed praise Him that the month has. brought to us no less, pf His faithfulness, and the glad joy of witnessing how gra ciously He has honored His Word, and to see these little ones, bowing the neck to receive His yoke. It is less than a month since we were holding a heart-to-heart talk with a fine, cultured, well-dressed young man, who just drifted in. His conversation was profusely sprinkled with the phraseology so common these days, which smells of Eddyism first, last and always, but we finally persuaded him to go home and read the first three chapters of Romans and pray, “Oh God, show me myself.” We likewise went home and prayed the same prayer in his behalf, , and the next time we met him—what a
change! His face was radiant with a new-found joy, for God had not only shown him himself, but had revealed Him self, and had given him grace to make a public confession of the Lord Jesus in the Church of the Open Door. We met him again last night at the Fishermen’s Club. “My!” he said, “but it’s a fight, a real fight.” He was working at hard manual labor, quite a change from the actor of a few weeks ago. I know now that there is a personal devil; he certainly is giving me a time of it, but with Jesus Christ on my side I’m sure to win out.” He is working hard every day to get his debts paid, so he and the little, wife can come to the school and prepare to give their lives to serve anywhere He leads. We have another ybung couple also wait ing for God to open the door for service, who only a short time ago Were in “the far country.” This is what he writes: “Never have I lived with less regret for the days that are going by, or with greater joy and hope in the expectation of the days that are to come. If the fellows could only see it, how quickly they too would enlist ip the army of the Lord Jesus.” Another of our boys, away from God, comes back. It was certainly touching to receive a hastily pencilled letter, scribbled in the rush- and hurry of his car “run,” so full of thankfulness and .enclosing a dollar bill for fellowship in the work, and, know ing as we do the dear fellow’s circum stances, we can but praise God, for with such sacrifices He is well pleased. And here comes another of our fine fire laddies swinging into line, and wanting to
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