266 tru e, etc. She soon brought h er Bible w ith h er. The Book of Romans was being taugh t. 2 Tim. 3:16 and sim ilar texts were memorized before th e study of the Book began. Then th e doctrines of Romans— Sin, Salvation, etc., were opened up week afte r week. Slowly bu t surely God began His work un til finally one day she came to the Bible teacher and said she would not stay in th a t atmosphere of unbelief longer. She united w ith a little church in one of the suburbs, and today she is by fa r the strongest Christian woman in every way in th a t community. She teaches a class of girls, th e same lesson she receives in h er Bible class. She visits the poor, prays w ith the dying and goes into th e homes of th e people carrying th e mes sage to lost women. Seeking fo r R est Another woman found her way to a Bible class. She too was filled w ith prejudices because of m isrepresentations and falsehoods th a t h ad been told h er about th e teacher. The Book of Mat thew was being taugh t. She listened from Sunday to Sunday and soon dis covered th a t a certain woman who had been in Christian Science was wonder fully saved; then she noticed th a t a t the close of the lesson th e teacher was praying in a little side room w ith some burdened women. She saw th e ir faces all aglow when prayer was over and knew the Lord had spoken. She talked w ith a woman who had been an u n believer, who had been led ou t into the light. She listened to th e teacher quot ing from cJod’s Word, “ Come un to me, I will REST you.” “T h at is w h at I need,” she said, “rest, rest, w ithin.” And then she made h er confession with te ars in h er eyes. “ I have wandered far away, now I am coming home.” She yielded herself to the Holy Spirit and peace came flooding her soul and now she stands fou r square on the Word, letting her ligh t shine wherever she goes, and in th a t large church th e re is none testifying to th e wondrous grace of God w ith g rea ter power th a n she. The Euodia Work Helen and E lise are two H igh School girls of Los Angeles, who come to the Euodia Bible classes. E lise is th e child of French-Swiss parents. On h er first day in class we discovered th a t she did not know th a t Jesus Christ was a Jew, and th a t she had no idea who Abraham was or what th e Jewish people stood for.
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S So we went back in our lesson and told h er briefly of God’s plan of salvation. “Now you have heard it all, Elise, do you feel th a t you have ever taken Jesus as your Saviour?” “No, I never have” she said. “Will you ta k e Him now?” “Yes” she answered simply. Now Elise comes to class every week w ith many questions fo r she still knows less, a t fif teen, about God’s Word th a n many p ri m ary children. Helen is a very different type. She “ used to believe” before she went to H igh School, she says. She has read more th a n the average adult already and h er keen young mind is developed more th an h er heart. “W hat is God?” she asks. “God loves you—He is Love for one th ing .” “Oh yes, attrib u tes— love, goodness and so on, perhaps these are God.” “No, no! God is personal. He is mor^ intensely individual th an you or I.” “But I must use my reason.” “God wants you to! He says, ‘Come now, and let us reason tog eth er.’ And if you do th at, what is th e resu lt? ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool.’ ” “But Heaven and ‘the Glory,’ and all th a t, it all sounds like fairy-land to me.” “W hat does Jesus say? ‘In my F a th e r’s house are many mansions, if it were no t so I would have told you.’ ” . “You seem to take the Bible as if it were an exact science like Geometry.” “I do believe it all— and afte r all, is Geometry exact? How about the axioms? ‘Let it be g ran t ed th a t a straight line is the shortest distance between two points.’ You can not begin your exact science without sev eral assumptions. But Christ gives us His own word-’-'The' Scripture cannot be broken,’ in the m atter of th e Bible.” Helen is still coming, and still asking questions. H er forehead is often puck ered in a puzzled, troubled frown. It is against the law to teach the Bible in the schools, but alas! it is not against the law to plant seeds of disbe lief in young and tender minds. W h a t will the harvest be? What can we, who “know Him” do about it? m m BIOLA C L U B , PASADENA The classes are increasing in in te rest and influence. A new class has been o r ganized for High School and College young women, with Mrs. Elwood P. Lyon as teacher.
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