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was at our harbor. A letter from the wo man interested in him, the tract and the meeting of the worker all were used of God to bring him to Christ. This guidance of God, step by step, showed him that surely he must yield. He then and there promised voluntarily to write in that letter just be gun of his decision for Christ. “She will be glad to get the news, I know. She pleaded with me for a long time, but I was never ready to do it until tonight when you came in.” God surely uses complicat ed means and ways to reach one man some times, but every step was ordered by His providence and guidance “in His time." —Oscar Zimmerman. is spent in conversation and prayer and when we leave she says, “God must have sent you here today; you have helped me to understand so many things that have been troubling me.” D own the street a little farther is a house where we had left a Bible with a young Jewess, a high school girl. Knock ing at the door, a voice calls up to me from a little store near by, “There’s no one at home.” “Oh!” I said, recognizing the girl’s mother, “I’ll just come down. Sadie is not at home?” “No;” very un graciously. And then of her husband, who had appeared from somewhere, she asked for change for half a dollar. Here was my opportunity. Perhaps we could change her money. So we were admitted to the tiny little shop and before leaving we had a talk with the mother and saw Sadie’s young er sister who told me that Sadie was read ing the book I gave her every night. I thanked God for opening the door into that home and into that mother’s heart ever so little, for prejudice was certainly opposing the message. A short time before this, we had found a family, of Russian Jews, the mother and five children. They could neither speak nor understand our tongue. Strangers they
circumstances, although not a seafaring man, to take the place of one of the men on the ship who was discharged because of drunkenness, t The captain could not find another man and so engaged this young man almost against his will to report the next morning. As he went up the gang plank that morning, a man who was leav ing the boat gave him a paper and joking ly said, “Read this; it will do you good.” It was the same fellow whose place he took. Thinking it might be an order from the captain he took it and found that it was a tract, “The Loveliness of Christ ,” which had been given out a few weeks before by one of the workers when the ship J EHOVAH hath poured' out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes—and all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed. Isa. 29:10-11. Blindness in part is hap pened to Israel.—Romans 9:25. D uring the past month our workers have been doing visitation work among the Jews in Boyle Heights, expecting to open there a Jewish missionary cottage. We go from door to door, leaving a Gospel of Matthew and a copy of Mr. Blackstone’s tract, “How Shall We Know Him?” with every Jew ish family. Later we return to talk with them and give other tracts or a Bible tr inquirers. Opportunities are many whether one finds Jews or gentiles. Oh, the joy and the privilege of telling the sweet old story. But come with me and visit a few of our Jewish homes, for I want you to see “the veil” which hangs heavy before the eyes of this people. This is a day for sec ond calls. At the first house, I am told they have not read our books at all, for' there is little time to read. Next door, they did not like them, and the door is quietly shut in our face. At a house where at our former visit no one had been at home our errand is told and we are in vited in because this woman is a Chris tian and loves the Jews. A good half hour
The Work Among the Jews
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