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T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
November 1924
We want to record a note of praise to the Lord for our automobile. Through some gifts of friends and the Sunday collections of the past year, our Mexican Bible class has been able to purchase a good used car, so that they are able to visit our Camps and hold outdoor meetings. So we want to render unto the Lord all the glory due to His name. In our article in the July number we made a statement that of the population of Mexico, seventy-five per cent were Indians who did not speak the Spanish language and that no mission work was being done among them. Since that number went forth to press, a missionary who is working among them has informed us that there are about twenty per cent who speak only the Indian dialect. We are also informed that some missionaries have a school for Indian boys and are training them in order to send them back to their own tribes with the Gospel. Other missionaries are among them learning their dialect and conducting a train ing school in which they hope to develop Christian workers. We praise God for this information and gladly make the above statement and stand corrected. Dear friends, pray especially for the Indian work in Mexico and for us, that, if it please God, our work may reach down to Mexico and that Southern California shall send forth Mexican converts who have come into the knowledge of the truth while in our midst. ate ate WORK IN THE SHOPS Marion H. Reynolds, Supt.— Meetings Held in Shops, Factories, Car- Barns and Fire-Engine Houses in Los Angeles Situated on the great East Side, in the new industrial section of this city, the Union Pacific Shops stand as a monu ment to the faith of the Union Pacific System in the future growth of this great western metropolis. The largest shops of the Los Angeles-Salt Lake divisions are located here, employing several hundred men and capable of expanding and employing thousands. For the past several years we have been carrying on a Gospel work in these shops. Sometimes with the co-opera tion of the officials and at other times without it, but never theless finding a fertile field in which to sow the precious seed. Let us go into the shops now, first entering the Adminis tration Building, which is entirely surrounded by other large buildings, one housing the Emergency Hospital, where, the company maintains a doctor and nurse as well as equip ment for treating emergency cases. On another side is the Round House, where the mighty locomotives are housed and repaired, and on another the large Store Room where the large stores of the company are kept. On another side are the large Machine Shops and Boiler Room, where repairs are made, and where the machinery is given its impetus. Located as it is in a central position, the Administration Building holds much the same position in the plan of things as does the hub in a wheel. So let us enter this building. On the lower floor will be found the offices of the different superintendents, ranking from the office of Motive Power and Machinery down. Let us go upstairs and enter the large double doors, where we will find a large assembly
SPANISH WORK R obert H. Bender, Supt.—-Gospel Meetings and House to House W ork am ong 50,000 Mexicans in Los Angeles and Vicinity. “ The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose them selves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknow l edging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out o f the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will.” (2 Tim. 2 :2 4 ). The above is a very necessary exhortation to us as Chris tian workers. We need to be gentle and in meekness in structing such as we have to deal with in our work among' Roman Catholics. The following is one of the many cases which have come under our notice. One of our workers said: “ The old lady I have been dealing with for almost a year shows signs of conviction; she is convinced of the truth, but is not willing to humble herself and take Jesus as her Saviour for fear of her Catholic friends. The other day she said of her own accord, ‘I want assurance, X want peace.’ She has read the many books that I have taken her and is now reading the Testament. One book which has made a deep impression on her life is ‘Pilgrim’s Progress.’ She said to me the other day, ‘I want to go to meeting, but I am ashamed to have my Catholic friends know it. If they saw me go, they would say I was turning Protestant, after being Catholic all my life. I like what they say at meeting and I want to hear, I want assurance.’* Ten months, ago she told me she would never set foot in a Christian meeting. I have ceased to ask her to go, but now she wants to go. She has not definitely accepted Christ as her Saviour; but I have repeatedly told her the way of Salvation and she listens intently. Although she has not accepted Christ, her attitude toward me has wonderfully changed and is different from that of ten months ago. Then she would not listen to me and tried to put me out of her house. She has lost faith in her religion and feels the need of Christ instead. We must pray much for her.” Another case this worker met was a woman who was a rank Catholic. “ When she learned who I was, she became so angry she shook from head to foot and said, ‘Why do you people always come to bother me. You Protestants only come condemning me.’ But I told her it was her sins that condemned her, and her reply was that she had rather be eternally lost and condemned than to change her faith; that the priest was Christ on earth now, and when she needed or wanted to know anything, she went to him. She would ask him if the Gospel of John was all right. If he approved she would read it, and if he did not, she would not read it.” We make mention of these cases to let The King’s Business readers know what Christian workers have to combat, when they deal with those who have been brought up in the Roman Catholic faith. Nevertheless when we labor according to the exhortation given at the head of this article, we have the joy of seeing many saved from the Devil’s snare. During our vacation the work in our de partment has been carried on by several volunteer workers and several of our trained Mexican converts. These con verts have reported nearly fifty conversions in the different camps visited.
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