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THE KING’S BUSINESS WORK IN THE OIL FIELDS Ralph C. Isbell, Sup’t.
/''\U R work during the latter part of Feb- ruary and the early part of March was in the Lost Hills and Devil’s Den country. We were slightly hindered by the rain (the soil becomes very slippery and the nights were dark and stormy) but in spite of these unpleasant features we have great reason to rejoice. Our meetings, which we were told would not be attended by more than six or eight, grew until we had-between forty and fifty people out to hear the message. Men and women, some of whom hadn’t been to church for fifteen years, came and listened eagerly to the claims of Christ. They told us when we left that the whole place had been changed by the power of the Gospel (Rom. 1 :16). Pray for these people. A Sunday School was started here and supplies were ordered, the song books being a gift from one of the ladies. girl, whom I had known and loved for a long time, and to whom I had often spoken of the claims of Jesus Christ. She had never been'willing to respond to any ap peal, but in this, her last time of oppor tunity. she made her confession of need. She had been made bitter, for years, by the false treatment of so-called Christians, and had not been at all willing to look to Jesus for help. She now said, “I have watched you close ly, all these years, thinking you, too, would not stand, but you have, and in my extreme need I must have help quickly or I am forever lost. I can trust your profession— can you show me the way home?” I trem bled as I thought of what might have re sulted if I had not let God lead me in a WORK OF THE
Upon leaving Lost Hills we were some what delayed by one of the horses, which had backslidden and refused to pull. So, for nearly a week, we lived with sheep- herders. They did not understand much English and our Spanish wasn’t much bet ter, but God used our Spanish tracts to His glory. It was the first time anyone had given them tracts or Gospel literature. One of. the men said he was coming to Coalinga (forty-five miles away) to see us. God had put a hungering in his heart to know more about this Jesus. We are preparing for a campaign in the Coalinga fields, and are looking forward to a great time of blessing and heart-search ing. Don’t forget this work on your prayer list. If you have not a prayer list, remem ber us anyhow. straight path. This poor wayward girl found her way home to the gracious, wait ing, loving Saviour. Suppose she had missed the Way, because of my failure? —P. A special case handed me last week I found to be a young woman, claiming to be a Christian from her childhood, with a membership in an eastern church. When asked for a Bible, she confessed she had none—in answer to some pointed questions, she said, “I only know one thing about the Bible, and that is you have to trust Jesus Christ for salvation—that is all I remember. The young woman was prayerfully dealt with but her mind has been callous so long, regarding the things of God, it is difficult to make her understand her position before BIBLE WOMEN
Mrs. T. C. Horton, Sup’t.
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