went into a room about twenty feet square. In one corner a number of men were playing cards; in another corner a different nationality were talking of the home land; but lying in the middle of the floor was a man, a giant in size. Our minister approached him, and with a smile said, **Slav?" And then he handed him a New Testament in his native tongue. You should have seen the eager look and then the smile as he grasped that book. For an hour our friend was among those men, but our Slav never took his eyes from that book; he literally was devouring the New Testament and feeding his soul. We sent two workers up the Miami valley in October and November last. They visited all the foreigners and sold them the Word of God, but they did more: they gathered one hundred and fifty Hungarians together at Middletown, O., and with the aid of the Presbyterians, formed a church. One of these colporteurs was a converted Roman Catholic priest, who had been thoroughly regenerated and had begged me to give him the opportunity to preach Christ to the Hungarians. To-day he is the pastor. How was he converted, you ask. He says: A friend gave me a Bible in HunI read it and God's spirit showed garian while I was still a priest. me that I was a sinner, lost. I sought and found the Saviour, and now, He is so precious to me.'"' of the presence of Jesus Christ. He has a real, vital experience Can we ask for anything more? She says: 66 My lady colporteur tells me that down among the mines of Kentucky she finds these foreigners, yes, of many different tongues, and they gladly receive the Word. Coming into the diningroom of my boarding house one morning to hold the family worship before the people went to work, I saw two men in chains. One especially was heavily chained. I found he had murdered his companion in labor for his money, after they were drunk and had quarreled. Yes, the blood-stained money was found upon him. As he understood a little English, I asked him to kneel with us, and he did so. I prayed for him as well as for ourselves. The next morning, before they were taken away to the county seat, we had prayer again together. It was then that he repeated after me several times in deep earnestness, O God, have mercy on me and forgive my sins.' I gave him a Bible in his native tongue. He thanked me again and again. And every moment he had was given to reading that Bible.” Who is able to tell what the result may be to that man. We leave it all to the Heavenly Father. The Central Agency is indirectly responsible for a Foreigners' Home in Cincinnati. I say indirectly, for when we opened a way for Michael Schwartz to be a colporteur, we little expected that the Lord would call him to this great and growing work, and that Mr. Schwartz would furnish the American Bible Society with choice men -converted men of foreign speech, when we needed them; but such is the case. In this Foreigner Christian Home there is a school for teaching the English language, a nursery, a lively prayer meeting, a Sabbath school, and a growing church. It is a home which shel tered 927 foreigners last year, secured employment for 403 persons, supplied 1,029 meals, and dealt with 486 Hungarians, 152 Roumanians, 92 Germans, 43 Servians, 4 Jews, and 135 persons of other nationalities. 66 Turn with me to Gulfport, Miss., where the Rev. W. T. Griffen is superintendent, and where the American Bible Society helps with the Word of God among the many nationalities coming into that port and visiting the Sailors' Nest" of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In three years' time sailors and officers from the ships made 31,300 visits to the reading-rooms; attendance on Gospel services, over 8,000; attendance on socials and concerts, 8,500; there were made 1,900 visits to the ships, 450 services held, 225 needy sailors helped, 1,100 free beds furnished, 3,000 Gospels distributed, 30,000 tracts. Can anyone tell what this work means to those that go down to the sea in ships?" Coming from many climes to bear our products away, but getting a view of Christ's love displayed. Language Lists 66 It is well to know how widely extended this work among the foreigners is in the Central Agency alone. W. A. Young in Alabama ministered to the Italians, Swedish, and Greeks. His work was among the English. The Rev. Jos. P. Bartak at Nashville, Tenn., found Greek, Italians, Hebrews, and Arabic. His work was among the English. The Rev. George Manotte, southern Mississippi, found Armenian, French, and Hungarians. His work was among the French. The Rev. J. H. Walker, southeast Kentucky, found Germans, Russians, and Italians. His work was among the English. Colporteurs Daum and Kaffer, Miami Valley, O., found Hungarian, Roumanian, German, Croatian, Slovenian, and Swedish. John Kader, northeast Ohio, found German, Hungarian, Roumanian, Polish, Bohemian, and Croatian. Mrs. Helen Andrews, southeast Kentucky, found Welsh, Italian, Slav, Slovenian, Hungarian, and Syrian. Her work was to the English. Bible Institute, Cleveland, O., found Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Bohemian, Ruthenian, Russian, Bulgarian, aud Luthuanian. Sailors' Rest, Gulfport, Miss., found Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, and those of British Isles. Episcopal Mission, Cleveland, O., found Bohemian, German, Roumanian, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Polish, Swedish, and Greek. Epworth League, Glencoe, O., found Italian, Polish, Hungarian, and Greek. Miss Lehman, Cleveland, O., found Hungarian, Russian, and Servian. The Rev. L. A. Jarosí, Cleveland, O., found Bohemian, German, Slovak, Bulgarian, Hebrew, and Croatian. John Vojtki, Lakewood, O., found Bohemians. We have taken this little summary that some idea may be had of how pronounced is the fact of the foreigners among us and in all parts of our land. It certainly behooves us to be about our Master's business; and it is true that the King's business demands haste." 66 How shall we meet the demands without the means! How shall we have the means unless the people of Christ respond, and respond now, in this time of urgent opportunity! The fields are ripe to the harvest, the laborers are ready; the funds are adequate. Come up to the help of the Lord. Besides the strenuous calls coming to this Agency from the flood sufferers, we have had a continued calling for aid over the five states. Here are samples: Memphis Rescue Home. Y. M. C. A., Cleveland, O. W. C. T. U. Work, Eddyville, Ky. City Infirmary, Cincinnati, O. Friends Mission, Dayton, O. Settle Memorial Church, Owensboro, Ky. Salvation Army Prison Work, Cin- Bethshan Home, Canton, O. and many others, for the smaller grants we will not attempt to name. The flood sufferers alone called for nearly a thousand Bibles, in the Miami valley, for the wreck and ruin of that great flood no one can understand unless it was seen or felt in the awful experience of the seething, rushing waters, working devastation everywhere. Five Dollars and What it Accomplished Do people understand how fruitful a little investment in Bibles may be? A young man gave five dollars to one of our workers and said, "Use it for the Lord." Now see the return: "There was an old man on the Tom Biggs Fork not able to work much; his Bible was worn out. I helped him with seventy-five cents of the five dollars and then helped a little personally. How he will read it and enjoy it. Next was a family just moved in, but owing the company for transportation-quite a family. Their goods failed to come on time and they had to buy some goods. The woman prized the Bible and hoped to buy one, but had not the money. She was overjoyed when I told her how she would be helped from the five dollars, and that I would let her do some washing for me. She gladly took the $1.50 large-print Bible, saying it was the best Christmas present that could come to her. It will surely do a blessed work in that home. Next I found a poor woman desiring a large-print book for her little Ida. The little girl attends the Sabbath school. When I named the price to her she took it with great joy. I have been to this house to talk and pray with them. I found a young man there 66 who had been injured, and as he is boarding in her home, I was able to talk and pray with him also. Just before the Bible was taken into the house she had said that she did not feel that she was lost if she was not a Christian. I said to her the matter of feeling was not to be relied upon; if she was not born again into God's kingdom she was lost. I prayed with them as the Lord gave me words. The next morning the Bible came, and she went with me to prayer meeting at night. At the close of the testimony meeting she arose and confessed herself a sinner, asked our prayers, and knelt down weeping. When she returned to her home she told her husband what she had done. The young man at the home bought a Testament and Psalms, and whenever I go to the home now I find him reading either her Bible or his little Book of Psalms. The young man is much changed. The next was a book for a nice family whose only book had fallen to pieces. The mother 'just longed for a large-print Testament and Psalms.' Their son had been badly hurt in the mines and they could not spare a dollar, but they could deny themselves and raise fifty cents; so the book was theirs, and how happy it made them. 66 The next was in a neighbor's home where there were two lovely children, but there was no Bible in that house; I helped them to the amount of seventy-five cents, and they were made so happy in the possession of a Bible. "The next required a number of visits and many prayers; but her heart did at last yearn for the Word of God, and when I told her she could have one for fifty cents her eyes filled with tears, and she said, I have no money and my husband don't care for the Bible at all.' So we prayed over it and I left the Bible for her husband to see. I called the next morning; the husband met me, and took the Bible for the wife. Then we all knelt down for prayer, and I prayed God to bless the home and the Bible in the home and write their names in the Lamb's Book of Life. Her face really beams now, and I feel God will save the household. The mother was 66 The next are the G- -s; you know them. always making excuses to keep the children out of Sabbath school. Well, the children come regularly now and Goldie spoke at Christmas time. The mother said she had no money, she could not buy. Well, she borrowed a quarter here and a dime there. I paid the little difference lacking to meet your gift, and they have the largeprint Testament and Psalms. So far nine have been helped with the gift you made to the Lord's work. In my prayer in that home you may be sure I did not forget the young man who made it possible to bring comfort in nine homes. I want to thank you, Mr. Sfor your help in the Lord's work and your gift as a young man. God bless you. Mrs. A. H. Andrews Mrs. Andrews is the only person who gives a constant recital of events as they occur, so we will quote from her letters, beginning with January, 1913: 66 Rain all night and hard rain and snow this morning-now five days of constant rain and landslides, but the work goes on. Found four homes without Bibles to-day and sold one Bible for fifty cents and a half dozen eggs. I give away a number of books as donations and help all I can by inducing others to buy books, so I can give away to the worthy. It is time to move to a new field of work, and I am going to the new towns of Jenkins and McRoberts, Ky. The new mountain railway is quite dangerous, and 'most every day there is a wreck or a landslide. Jenkins and McRoberts are only three miles apart across the hills. I find McRoberts a stirring place. It is virtually owned and controlled by the Consolidated Coal Company. They fix prices for rooms and meals. There are no churches here, but services are held in the Y. M. C. A. building, and one must pass through the billiard room to get to the place of services. "The buildings here are very good; good walks are found, visiting is easy, and sales are reasonable. The blasting of the rocks is terrific; it sounds like a bombardment. The people are coming faster than accommodations can be found for them. Genesis is melting away, for all the Sunday-school people want them. 66 There are two children next door named Alpha and Omega, but they are not either the first or the last in that family. The mother rejoices in the fact that they are Bible names and is happy. In our trip up the railway we passed Kingdom Come' creek, about which the book was written, 'The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.' Mrs. Crouse has worked with me this month, and I shall feel lost when she goes back to Snake Valley, as she feels it her duty to do. She has gone into the homes with Jesus in her heart and on her lips. 66 There are a number of foreigners here-wonderful opportunity to do good. I have found the Slavic, Slovak, Syrian, Hungarian, and Swede here in the mining camps. The rains have been so terrible for days that the people had to leave their homes at Jenkins. Just a year ago to-night they had the tidal wave (‘big tide') which swept everything out. I met one of the Syrians at No. 2 mine and he was so pleased to get his book in Arabic. There is a young Montenegrin girl here wanting a Bible, but we haven't it, so she will take it in Servian. Send No. 2 Testament and Psalms. 66 A number of us were going to the Sunday School Institute at McRoberts with the Kentucky State Sunday School officers. We started to drive, and it rained and rained. A slide of land closed the road, so we had to walk a narrow ledge, while the mules were unhitched and led over the ledge and the workmen got the wagon over. We had some excitement: the first circus ever in Letcher County came. It seemed strange for all business to stop and everyone to go to the circus, and it was a very hot day in August.' |