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pel of John over and over again. We just left it all with Him, and with them a little copy of John’s Gospel, and soon had the joy of receiving the following note: “My dear friend: After reading the Gospel of John; which you sent me last night, I felt that I wanted to give myself to Christ, and falling on my knees, I accept ed Christ as my Saviour. Already the cares are lighter today.” This, was signed by the wife, so1you see God has answered already for her. Now keep on praying all this month for the husband, who has not yet come out into the clear light, and then next month, please God, we’ll tell the result of prevailing, believing prayer offered up in the name of Him, whom the Father delights to honor—- “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.” School lesson, so we make it a point to take a 1 simple chapter of the love and grace of God, teach that and trust the Lord to send it home to their hearts. Some Sunday School literature I do not care much fo r; as a lady once said, “Many of our lesson helps are really lesson hindrances.” Per sonally I prefer to teach the children the simple truths of the gospel, man’s ruin and God’s remedy, and try to make them mem orize Gospel verses. It is most wonderful how God answers prayer. We recall- one instance, where we called at a home on the American,Oil lease, and gave a gospel tract, but was informed by the lady, “You know I am a Catholic.” The next time we were received by herself and her husband. After a short conversation, she admitted she was not saved and accepted the Lord. A couple
do “his bit,” even to jumping on our gospel auto truck and hurrying off to stand with us as we go to a shop meeting. He gets another good feast at the club that night and yields his life for the call when ever it comes for Christ’s service. Some of you will probably recall the conductor mentioned last month, who asked us to visit his home, and we know some have been praying for this home, for after the gospel had been told in its simplicity, they both sat and looked at us in perfect astonishment. “Why! you don’t mean, to say its a's easy as all that? We thought it would mean months and months of strug gle, effort, renunciation, before we could begin to hope. Are you quite sure you are right? It doesn’t seem possible that all we really have to do is just to simply believe in what Jesus has already done.” We gave them the Word from the Gos W E have had as our motto for Oil Fi'elds service the past month, ’ the 3rd chapter of 2nd Corinthians—the great theme of our partnership with H im : “We are laborers together with God” ; the character of that labor, and the test it will have to stand in order to be pleasing to Him :■“The fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.” And with this word in mind in these fields, which are literally foreign fields, our constant thought is, “What is best to-do; how can we reach them most effectively?” We need to know the mind of the Spirit and seek to be led of Him : In some places out here it seems almost impossible to find a man or woman who will be sponsor for a Sunday School, so at such places we make it a point to teach the children on the days of our visit. It is not feasible to keep up the Sunday
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WORK IN THE OIL FIELDS By Frank J. Shelley
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