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THE KING’S BUSINESS
SPANISH MISSION WORK L. H. Jamison, Supt.
T HE city jails always contain a large number of Mexicans. The East Side' jail is visited by our workers on each Lord’s Day, and a cordial reception has been re ceived from both the officials and men. The Gospel is given to these men and there are many opportunities for personal work. The little Jew (spoken of in a former number of T he K ing ’ s B usiness ) professes to have accepted the Lord Jesus as Saviour and Christ. He says, “I feel so different,” and he looks quite happy. We are always beseiged for wearing ap parel of all kinds from a hatband to a pair of shoes. Some of -these needs we have been able to supply, the articles always be ing received with expressions of gratitude and appreciation. The Street Boys’ Bible School is doing splendidly. There' has been excellent or der and attention, and some of the boys are very much interested. You ought to hear them sing! God is surely working among these young lives. Letters from believers now absent from It would appear that God’s call to His people for a definite separation from_ the world, is becoming more urgent, in view of the signs of the times and the imminency of His coming. This fact is clearly discernible in the attitude of our audience among the shops and barns. Our men are “coming out from among them,” taking a more definite stand, and identifying themselves with the public testimony. It certainly looked good to see one of our recent converts take his place all unsolicited in a room filled with his associates, all more or less hostile and indifferent to the mes
Los Angeles, are very encouraging, telling of their steadfastness and loyalty to Jesus Christ. Many times there is a stolid indifference to the preaching at the open-air meeting, and at other times there is a manifest in terest; but one thing is certain, that hun dreds of unconverted men hear the Gospel there each week. 2 Cor. 2:14-16 has been a great en couragement to us in the open-air work: “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish; to the one, a savour of death unto death: and to the other, a savour of life unto life.” To know that one is triumphant, whether the message is accepted or rejected, gives a sweet assurance that abides, whatever may be the attitude of those to whom the Word is preached. True, to some it may be a savour of death unto death, yet to others it will be a life-giving message. sage of God’s free grace which was being given. At another meeting recently we were much cheered by three of our young men leaving the crowd and coming over to our side, engaging most heartily in the singing and giving a clear, ringing testimony to the saving power of Jesus Christ. We know that all this means persecution in a hundred small, petty ways, hard to endure, but “He giveth more grace.” And while it must needs be that the wheat and tares grow to gether until the harvest, how it must re fresh the heart of the Lord Jesus to see those who are called by His name standing
------ ------- WORK IN THE SHOPS David Cant, Supt.
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