THE KING’ S BUSINESS 527 many o f the men never get into the chapel that we are true friends to those who will until some such unusual opportunity comes give us an opportunity to ' show our to us to witness to them, when they learn friendship. -------------- O ------- \ ------ WORK OF THE BIBLE WOMEN Mrs. T. C. Horton, Supt. D O YOU really believe there is such a place as hell ?” j The question was
district. “ I’d like to start a Bible Class down there if you would send the lessons,” she said at parting, and then again, “ Pray for me.” The lessons we are taking in the class will follow her to her new home. Pray that they may be much used o f God for His glory.—L. C., I don’t know how she came to stray into the Bible class, but she was there one day, full of the modern-day skepticism, espec ially on the subject o f “that awful doctrine o f hell.” I answered her questions briefly, then suggested a call, to discuss the subject from the standpoint of the Bible. W e talked the matter over for an hour, and on leav ing I gave her many passages from the Word, which she promised to read. I found her to be a tourist from a' far eastern town, a hard “church worker,” but full o f the modern delusion that one has a right to believe what she wishes, and that sincerity will answer for sound (Joctrine. For several months she has been a regular attendant at my class both Sunday morn ing and during the week, and just before leaving again for her home she said: “I am going back home, but I shall never be the same. I shall go back to teach the Bible in my Sunday-school class. I see now that if I am a Christian I must believe God and act as if I believed Him.”—L. C. I had failed to find the people at home whom I started out to see that morning, and in going to make another call I passed a home where the week before I had left some literature, in answer to a question asked in the class. I was passing by on the other side when the Spirit prompted me to go over to inquire whether it had reached the woman safely. I had intended to re-
asked by a group o f three women at the close o f a Bible lesson in which the sub ject had been merely mentioned. “ I cer tainly do,” I answered. “Well, you will have to talk a long time to convince me,” the leader o f the group announced; and so for the next two weeks we carefully studied what the Bible teaches about hell, noting the scientific exactness with which the various words translated “ hell” are used, and how the very points upon which the teachers o f false doctrine dwell so constantly, verify, rather than disprove this unpopular teaching o f God’s Word. The questioners were satisfied, one o f them snatched from the teachings o f Russellism; and the rest o f the class fortified against the attacks o f the adversary on this point. —L. C She was a' sweet little woman, and for the want o f knowing her name, I called her “ The Woman in a red hat” when I talked to the Lord about her, for she attended the classes for a month before I was able to talk with her. I often tried to corner her for a personal talk, but some one else always intervened, and she was gone. But there was a wistfulness in her face, and I felt "sure God had His hand upon her. So I sowed the seed, and watered it with prayer, and was not surprised when she came in early one day and quietly told me that she had received the Lord Jesus as her Saviour the night before, and added, “ Pray for me.” The Lord had kept her there just long enough for His grace to work in her heart, for after a few ;.more lessons, her husband, who had been out of work, secured work in a sparsely settled
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