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Long Distance Converts It’s great to see God working. Some times He brings men from long distances to Biola Hall, one last week from Aby ssinia, Africa. Twelve years ago he had heard some faint echoes of God’s great salvation and his starving heart had hungered to hear and learn more. As *' he passed Biola Hall the old words rang out once more, “God so loved,” “Christ ■died,” “The blood cleanseth,” etc., and as we listened and prayed for the speak er, we praised God for such a clear mes sage couched in His very own words. The man from Africa stood still and God whispered to a worker, “Join thyself to this man.” At the close of the message the stranger abruptly turned to the young man at his elbow, asking, “C^n you show me the way to the Saviour?” and you may imagine it didn’t take long for the anxious sinner and the seeking Saviour to come together. He left that very •eve for his far away home with Christ in his heart and a longing desire to tiurry back, and tell his own people. Long Distance Witnesses Some times God reverses the order and brings a messenger from some far away land to the city of the Angels to reach" a native son. This happened the ■other night while one of our boys from the Orient was giving the message. A business man stopped to hear and a watcher for souls handed him a tract. He asked for prayer as one who had known the Lord but had drifted, and as ■be started down the street, he was fol lowed and persuaded to return and open bis heart. The man was certainly anx ious and after a time of prayer he started for his home in Venice, instead of going down to pawn his watch for more drink. He went home with Romans 12:1,2, de termined to bring up his two children in the knowledge of the Lord and to seek to free his wife from the clutches of •Christian Science, to which she, poor soul, had turned to drown her sorrow. The home now is to begin all over again -with Christ supreme. We have to thank ■God for it all. He is blessing the printed :and spoken word from Biola Hall. Ev ery new day brings with it some mani fest token of His fathomless love and grace to us all as we are permitted to ■see the Spirit of God working upon the hearts of men creating faith in Christ •our risen and soon coming Lord. Breth ren, pray for us that we may all rejoice an the time of full harvest.
JEWISH WORK James A. Vaus, Supt.
Already God has set His seal of appro val on the work of the hew Mission Home by permitting us to lead a Jewess to Christ. Christian friends have for years been dealing with and praying for this young Jewess. A Bible had been presented to her, and as occasion offered, was talked to about the things of the Lord. Her family had not been very strict Jews, so she had not the usual Jewish antagonism toward Christianity. On the contrary her early impressions of Christianity were very favorable, though it was only after the lapse of many years that she began seriously to consider the claims of Jesus Christ. Some of her closest friends were Christian people and .they never missed an opportunity to press home upon her her responsibility to God and Jesus Christ as the only way to God. She attended one of our Hebrew Christian meetings at the Bible Institute and was never able to dismiss from her mind and heart the impressions made as she listened to the testimonies of Jewish men and women who evidently came from orthodox Jewish homes. In order that we might have opportunity to rea son with her from the Scriptures, she bnd her husband were invited to take dinner and spend the evening with us in the new Mission Home. After dinner we all sat down together and the conversa tion was led into the desired channel. She was found to be very favorably im pressed with Christianity, but full of doubt and uncertainty as to the person of Jesus Christ. She admitted that if she were certain "that Jesus were the Jewish Messiah so long expected by Israel, that she would accept Him as her Saviour. v/iuioi. seen m s Her Messiah , *ong time was spent in reading and discussing Old Testament passages con cerning the Messiah, until she acknowl edged that the description of the Mes siah given in the Old Testament cor- responded perfectly with that of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. She then became concerned about what her peo ple would say, if she were to become a Christian. “Why,” she said, “they would say I was crazy.” Asked if she thought they would object, if she were to become S?id’ “No>they would not feel the slightest concern.” It was then pointed out to her that her people were not so much concerned about her spirit-
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