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the flesh, not earing for the souls of men entrusted to them as ministers of God? Coming Back for More Recently the Coast to Coast service, discontinued during the war, was again taken up by a certain steamship line whose vessels it was our privilege to visit with the Gospel. It was with mixed feeling that one boat, an old friend, was boarded in quest of souls for whom Christ died. Alterations made during the war period had made a new ship out of it. Of course all were new faces. While the ship had very narrow escapes during the war it had been preserved to bring still another bunch of men to be reached here with the Gospel. A dark complexioned gentleman was definitely laid on the worker’s heart as soon as met, and while this was in a hallway where everybody passed back and forth, the worker persisted al though several times others interrupted and once or twice the “Boss” called the man away from above, not knowing that he was talking to the worker. But whenever the man’s voice would be heard from the upper regions, this man would excuse himself, go, and then re appear after a season. It was only the Lord who made him come back. He was very interested and although he had many opportunities to get away from the message, he stayed. At first, he thought he was a Christian, but later came to see by the Word that he was not one at all but simply trusting in good works. Slowly but surely the Lord opened his eyes and heart, and he accepted Christ as his personal Saviour. So, rejoicing in His grace and love, we look forward to the future expecting to speak more fully of the answers to prayer that He granted us in regard to the future of the work, Much seed sow ing calls us to more faithfulness in prayer for more precious souls to come out of unbelief into saving faith. . Mat a» JEWISH DEPARTMENT JAS. A. VAUS, SUPT, When a Gentile becomes a Christian his relatives and friends usually join in congratulating him, but when a Jew be comes Christian his relatives and friends invariably join in ostracizing him. Under the mistaken assumption that a Jew who has accepted Christ has disgraced himself and dishonored his own people, Jewish relatives and friends
feel it their duty to do all in their power to induce the deluded (?) one to return to the ranks of Judaism. To wnat lengths they will go in this regard is •shown by the following incident. A Jewess Radiantly Saved One evening when a group of Jewish girls were being entertained in the Mis sion Home there came a ring at the door bell. When the door was opened there stood on the threshhold a young Jewish mother with two children. She was crying bitterly and on taking a step in to the room she fell fainting to the floor. On regaining consciousness she told how her husband had abused and finally deserted her. She stayed for some weeks in the Mission Home and while there had ample opportunity to contrast the ordinary Jewish home with a Jewish Christian home and was favorably im pressed with Christianity. When a soul feels its need of God, it does not take long to point such an one to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, and so before many days had passed this young Jewess had found Je sus, the Messiah. She came into a radi antly happy experience as a Christian and has since borne faithful testimony by life and lip to Jews and Gentiles. She has since been reunited to her hus band and because of her faith in Christ he has persistently persecuted her. A long series of persecutions recently cul minated in his having his wife brought before a lunacy commission where by false witnesses he sought to prove her insane and commit her to the State Asylum. God raised up witnesses to testify in the wife’s behalf and she was declared perfectly sane. Through all this persecution this little Jewish woman has maintained a beautiful Christian attitude and has patiently waited for God to convert her husband. Let us pray for them both. His Day of Atonement Recently we reported the conversion of Mr. G., with whom, as he says, the Lord had been striving since he was fif teen years old. A few days ago he came to our Mission Home, and after ex changing greetings, said, “Mr. Yaus, to day is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, and I thought that on this day when the Jewish people are fasting and praying in their synagogues for God to forgive their sins, it would be a good time for me to be baptized.” One can better understand what all this means when one knows that a baptized Jew is an object of scorn to other Jews. The
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