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of salvation. Going through the whole ship he announced the worker as “the missionary,”. Every one of the men showed a reverence and soon were sup plied with the precious Word of God, more precious and life-bearing than the thousands of tons of wheat. Other French vessels with grain are coming. Pray that as they are leaving, the seed carried away in the hearts of the men may spring into golden sheaves which we can lay at His feet. God is blessing the story of the work among' the seamen as told by the worker with the aid of the stereopticon on Sun day evenings. Every Sunday night a dif ferent door has been opened and the Lord is using the testimonies to His faithfulness to bring a needed message home to many. A special part of this service is to reach the unsaved, and the testimony of men saved in the work, sup plementing the Word of God, we feel, is being used to reach more unsaved people than would be reached through regular evangelistic services, as people coming to see pictures do not expect to be faced with the question of how they stand in regard to the Lord. Pray that many, especially the young people and children, may be won to the Lord in this way which the Lord has opened up. Looking over some letters received a little while ago, we were reminded of the case of a man who was saved and with whom we had kept in touch until lately. After several visits, finding him at first antagonistic, then careless and putting things off, he was finally lost sight of as the vessel on a later trip had another man in his position. However, God worked and the visits, which some might think fruitless, nevertheless were not. It is a lesson for Christian workers not to be discouraged under seeming discourage ment, if God’s Word has been given faith fully. The letter, in part, reads as fol lows, (and please note that this fellow was on a lumber vessel where few of the men ever came out for the Lord): “It will give you pleasure, I am sure,
welcome at the three services' held on the following Lord’s Day. Pray for us that we may do just what God would have us do, and do it in His way.
Boarding the Ships With the Gospel The last month has been full of oppor tunities. A great percentage of the ves sels visited were foreign vessels. The reception accorded the worker has been good and while WORK IN PACIFIC few could talk or COAST HARBORS r e a d English, Oscar Zimmerman. through the Gos pel in print and in various other ways the seed has been sown, carried away and that fact alone is a challenge to more faithful work and prayer. Among the vessels flying foreign flags were four French ships, arriving only a day or two apart, carrying precious grain from Australia to our coast. Only one captain was met with who spoke English, and three other men in all. The order barring sailing ships from the war zone, sent these vessels, as others, on the way to Australia and Pacific Coast ports. To the worker and those awake to the chal lenge it is only a token of God’s ways of sending strangers from every part of the globe to our doors that they may receive the Gospel,, A sturdy little Frenchman, with eyes, keen and penetrating, will never be for gotten by the worker—the only one on the .vessel who could speak English enough to be dealt with. Yes, he believed he was a Christian, he said, but he seemed to look into the past years and years ago when he was taught to pray, and no opportun ity since to hear the Gospel. He hung on the words spoken and how his face lighted up, and how grateful he was to the one showing him the way of salva tion. It seemed that the dust had been sponged away from his memory and from his past, and,God used the Word spoken to help him to a realization of assurance
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