King's Business - 1918-09

THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S

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“Will you tell me how I might be saved according to your religion?” “Why, by doing good works.” :. “Will you please tell me when you ever did any good works?” ‘‘Never.” “Then, dpn’t you see your religion can­ not save you, because you cannot do any good works, just because you are a sin­ ner. But if you truly believed and ac­ cepted Jesus Christ you could be saved from your sin just now.” The poor man looked at us in amaze­ ment and said he did not believe it. “Why,” he said, “what returns could we give the Lord for such a sacrifice and a gift?” We replied that that was exactly why we were talking to him; because Jesus had saved us, we were giving our life that others might .hear and be saved. The poror man acted as though the good news was too good to be true. Dear friends, do you wonder? He had never heard it before. All his life long it had been pounded into him that he must, do, do, do, and if he did not do he would be eternally doomed to hell. Through the instrumentality of one of the converted Mexicans in the hospital, we had the privilege of leading another soul to accept Christ, so that now we have four young men confiding in Christ and two of them have consecrated their lives to the service of the Lord, if it will please the “Lord of the harvest” to heal them and spare their lives. Wc^n’t you put them on your prayer list, and hold them up before the Lord? V Deathbed Salvation of a Jewish Girl Many of our friends in various churches of Los Angeles and nearby cities who from time to time ask us to address their church congregations or missionary meet­ ings and tell them THE WORK about our work AMONG THE JEWS among the Jews, James Vaus will be glad to know that we can

now give them an unusually interesting stereopticon lecture on the Jews. We have secured the services of Miss Lillian Haifley, an able lecturer, formerly connected with a large Jewish Mission in New York. Those who are familiar with the place of the Jew in the plan of God, and who note the significance of the “signs of the times” will find much of interest in these lectures. Pictures of .Palestine in war times, showing the capture of Jerusalem by the British troops; the public reading of the proclamation of the British government, which gives Palestine back to the Jews; the recently formed Jewish battalion; pictures of, persecuted Jews in Russian Poland; Jewish immigrants at Ellis Island; the Jewish Ghetto in New York City, and pictures illustrating the work of the Jewish Evangelistic Department of the Bible Institute, will be shown. Miss Haifley is now arranging dates for these lectures, and any evangelical church, missionary society, or missionary convention desirous of having this free lecture, will please communicate with her at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Sixth and Hope Streets, or with the Superintendent of this department. The following incident illustrates how the Gospel is “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek (or Gentile)”. A young Jewish girl lay on a sick-bed in the hospital. She was very ill and the physician in charge said her recovery was very doubtfu,l. A personal worker visiting the hospital stopped for a few moments at her bedside. She was too ill to talk much, but on learning that the girl was not a believer, and fearing that she did not have long to live, the worker felt she could not leave her without tell­ ing her about the ‘‘Great Physician” who could not only heal the body, if He so chose, but who only had power to heal the sin-sick soul. When asked if she would like to know for sure that all her sins were forgiven, and that if she were

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