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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S crossing -a street and, preoccupied with the hard things the mother had said to her, did not notice the approach of an automobile until too late to avoid an ac cident. Mr. Johnson, the clerk of the Church of the Open Door, was passing just at that time and took her first to the Receiving Hospital where her in juries were treated and then to her home. The next day the mother again called and, instead of being softened by the girl’s accident, was even more abu sive than before, especially when her daughter refused to return to her own home. She wished many fearful calam ities to come upon the girl, and the girl’s brother-^who accompanied the mother— said he hoped she would never leave her bed alive. When they left the house, Mrs. G-------ministered to the girl’s comfort, and when she had suc ceeded in getting her quiet, took her Bible and, seating herself at the girl’s bedside, pressed home the claims of Christ, referring to the accident and warning her of the danger of delay. Satan had overreached himself, for when that Jewish mother cursed her , own daughter, she removed the last bar rier between the girl and Jesus Christ. It had been for the mother’s sake that the girl hesitated to accept Christ and now she felt she should no longer let that restrain her and then and there she accepted Jesus as her Saviour. JAS. A. VAUS, Supt. Hf SHOP WORK Signing Up Fire Fighters Two busy months have passed with out a report of the shop work but in that time God has done many wonderful things, for which we praise Him. We now have twenty-four meetings each week, including those held in car haras, railway shops, canning factories, manufacturing plants and freight sheds. Aside from these, God has opened the door into every fire engine house in the °ity thirty-six in all—-in each of which we find from eight to twenty men. It takes us three weeks to make the rounds to these fire houses, and a month and a half to visit all the crews. With us go the Fishermen’s Club Quartet, and God has graciously blessed the work. Will you not join us in pray ing that God will send us a thousand Testaments so that we may be able to sign up all of these fire fighters?
by saying that, if you would trace the ancestry of such an one back far enough, you would find Jewish blood in his veins. While it is not true that all Gentiles dislike the Jews, yet it is true that many Gentiles do dislike the Jews just as it is also true that many Jews dislike the Gentiles. There was a certain Jewish family in the city o f -------------- which sought very carefully to shield their children as far as possible from social contact with Gentiles fearing, as many Jewish par ents do, that their children might learn Gentile ways, habits and customs; and might even intermarry with Gentiles or worse still, might even accept the re ligion of the Gentiles, i. e. Christianity. One member of this family, a young Jewess about 23 years of age, rebelled against the intolerance shown toward Gentiles by her people and also against certain injustice toward herself in the home, and on finding her protest ig nored, decided to leave home. An uncle of this girl had married a Gentile Christian and to this Christian woman the girl went for advice. . Seeing the girl’s determination to leave home, the aunt, after talking to her about Jesus Christ, advised her to go to the Bible Institute in Los Angeles and look up Mrs. T. C. Horton, whom she felt sure would be glad to befriend the girl. Mrs. Horton met and talked with her and secured for her a room in the home of a Christian Jewess. The kindly treatment accorded her and the thought fulness of the members of this house hold made a favorable impression on her mind concerning Christianity, as it was in such marked contrast to the treatment she received in her own home. •She attended a Hebrew Christian meet ing in our Mission Home and was much impressed by the testimonies of other Hebrew Christians. The claims of Christ were presented to her and many of her natural Jewish difficulties were cleared up. One day, on being asked for her opinion of Jesus Christ, she said, “ If I didn’t believe in Him from a study of our Old Testament Scriptures, the lives of the Christian people with whom I stay would convince me; but,” she said, “ I could not confess Him as my Saviour for it would kill my mother.” Her mother came to the city to visit her and, on learning that she was rooming in a Christian home, she became furious and left the house in a towering rage. Struck By An Auto The same afternoon the girl was
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