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Jesus through personal work done in the re st room by our men, who under stand how to deal w ith these dear fel lows. Over two hundred twenty-five men have left th e ir names th a t we m ight send them a le tte r when we have the opportunity. One of th e boys from San Pedro, while doing M ilitary Police duty, came into th e H all looking for boys not wearing th e ir flu masks. Before going out he found Jesus, and became a new creatu re in Christ Jesus our Lord. Sometimes men get something they are not looking for. P ray th a t many more may do as he did. Times a re changing! God is speak ing to th e world. A year or so ago men would not listen to w h at God was say ing to them from the Bible; today, standing in th e hallway of Biola Hall, w,e can reach from ten to th irty or more men every fifteen m inutes and keep them listening as we read th e Scripture, and here it is th a t many of fhem come to know Jesus. M. J. REYNOLDS, Supt. p i Nicholsop at Redwood City God is blessing here, in spite of fes tivities and cold and “F lu .” The meet ings are growing in in te rest and num bers. I feel sure we will have a big tim e here. Our congregations are increasing and we are praying for a real “ b u rst.” , WM. P. NICHOLSON, Evangelist. The Gospel Among Seamen Another m onth has gone and another hew year is beginning. W hat will it bring? The believer, looking for the blessed hope, has nothing to fear. The nations and individual un- HARBOR believers would do well if WORK they would heed th e invita tion to be “ reconciled to God.” A strik ing sentence is contained in Haggai 2:9, “ In th is place will I give peace, saith th e Lord of hosts.” “ Hav
ing made peace th rough th e blood of H is cross” He offers it to whosoever will take it, and dealing w ith the nations, the P rince of peace alone can give peace. There are so many broken hearts! The work of th e gospel w orker carries him on th e ships where so often much is hidden away to keep up an “ out w ard appearance.” I t is not always easy to gain access to h earts. Who knows, bu t God, w hat sins, m u ltitude in number, are “ hidden,”, when a man is converted from th e erro r of his way, “saving a soul from death .” A very sad case came to our observation, where th e w orker was enabled to present Christ and bring com fort to a very sad dened h e a rt in th e throes of. despair. The worker en tering a cabin, found a young fellow packing his suitcase and handed him a tract. “This world would be a b etter place if people would heed th e message th is tra c t bears,” the young fellow said, w ith tears in his eyes. He was app aren tly suffering agony of h e a rt and had waited to unburden his h e a rt to someone who could under stand. The shipm ates would only laugh and joke over it, so he had kep t silent to all around. F inding a sympathetic h e a rt in th e worker, the sto ry of his sorrow was told, and w hat a relief it brought was apparent. “ I.-w e n t to F rance and left my old m other in th e no rth and afte r some tim e came home again. To be of service du ring the war, I took th is job on th e ship, although I dislike shiplife, and a few days ago, arriv ing here in San F ra n cisco, though t I would see my only sister. Looking her up, I found her living w ith o ther men. She fell, lower th a n th e animals and, oh, w hat will my poor Mother say? Mother, nor I, had the sligh test idea th a t she had deceived us all th is tim e and when I insisted th a t she should go back w ith me, she refused.” The tragedy of th e revela tion broke him all up and w h at was he to do? He w anted to shoot and kill
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