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and while the adversaries are many, yet God is able to save men if they will'give Him the chance. I covet the prayers of the readers of T he K ing ’ s B usiness for this work. Here in this harbor city we have 15,000 people and the total .church member ship is less than 500. We have a hall that is well suited to the work, and our prayer is as Paul said in ColossianS iv, 3: “With all praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds.” A Word From Africa A FEW excerpts are' hère presented from a recent letter written by Dr. Kenneth W. Allen, medical missionary at Kijabe, British East Africa, to his father- in-law, William Schneider, of this city: “We both enjoy the electric flash-light Esther sent. You see* the last month there has been a leopard prowling around here in the night. Leopards don’t like light, and if we leave our bed-room in the night we have to go out doors !” “This (February) should be our month or two of dry, warm weather, but we have had ten days of hard rain. People say the big rains here have started now instead of in March or April. We are. getting in our garden.”- Speaking of his work in the hospital, Dr. Allen says : “One boy (native helper) stays in.with me and questions the patients through the window. If it is merely to get a do$e of medicine, he gives it to them. If it is a condition that I should see, he opens the door. We are hindered in mapy ways. I do not have a working knowledge of the language and we have been terribly short of supplies.” ----------0----- ----
cabins and bunks Gospel literature, in Jap anese and Chinese. In, all, 2,600 tracts, 114 New Testaments, 111 Gospels of John, and three Bibles were left on this ship. We had only one Chinese Bible to give away and prayed for guidance that some one might get it who Would use ’ it to glorify God. In the steerage was an aged Chinese woman who could speak a few English words. She professed to be a Christian and asked for a Bible. The worker promised it to her if she would read aloud each day to her fellow-passengers. This she said she would gladly do, and we feel sure God will bless the reading of His Word and use this aged servant to touch many sin-cursed hearts. BIOLA HALL, SAN PEDRO I L. ELDRIDGE, superintendent of Biola 'Hall, San Pedro, writes that the work there is hi many ways like the statement in I Cor. xvi, 9 : “For a great doorand effect ual is dpenel unto me, and there are many adversaries.” That is true concerning this place, yet there is a great opportunity open ing to reach a multitude of men. We have 300 men here now at the fort, with, more coming. Quarters are being fitted up at the outer harbor dock to house 1,000 marines. The great ship-building yards will employ 3,S00 men within the year, with a possibility of 6,000 men. Other industries are coming to the harbor, and this vast crowd needs the Gospel, a great door is opened to us here, but in the hurry of the hour and rush of war times it is hard to get men to stop and think about spiritual things. But God has given us some real conversions among soldiers, sailors and men on the shore—real hand picked fruit. We are gping into the shops and canneries and streets with the gospel,
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