Covenanter Witness Vol. 54 - Rparchives.org

students'
college."
girls."
world."
ground."
The following Sabbath day we had communion
with around 200 communing. Eleven joined the
church at this time, and three babies were bap
tized on the previous Sabbath. It was a fine com
munion season.
Let us continue to pray for each other.
Spiritual Fruits in the Lives of Students
By Marjorie and Kenneth Sanderson
As we have been going around over the church
telling of the work in Syria we have been mention
ing a number of the young people who were in our
schools last year who came out quite definitely for
Christ and asking prayer that they may be kept
"strong in the faith." We thought perhaps some
people might be interested in the following excerpts
from letters we have received recently that tell in
the
tian life.
own words of their continued Chris
"I passed my summer vacation partly staying
home helping father and of course studying some
and doing my service to my Lord. Our lessons are
quite complicated here much harder than last
year's, but we know how to study hard, so we are
doing so, which is the only means of success, of
course not neglecting the help of God." (He is a
freshman in Jr. College in Aleppo now.) "Here also
I am giving a part of my time to God. Besides
my daily devotions, I am a member of the Armenian
Christian Endeavor. By the way, I have to confess
that, as I believe is natural with many new born
people, I had my own falls. I many times yielded to
Satan, but in every case I asked the pardon of my
Saviour and His help, so soon I regained my
strength. Jesus is wonderful. I can feel that, and
I have proved it in my
own experience. Your humble
student and brother because of Christ, Solomon
Apellian."
"We had a good time in the summer. We were
having a Christian meeting every Thursday after
noon. We were about fifteen boys and (This
was in their village as this boy was a boarder last
year.) "One of the members used to choose the sub
ject of the week. Once when it was my turn I chose
the subject, "What Must A Christian Do" I am
very sorry to say that Christian life has almost
no value by many in the (He was a senior
in our school last year.) "Some of the boys even
deny the existence of God. Some of them are very
indifferent toward religion, and not concerned with
it at all. But don't ever think that I have become one
like them. No! Thank God for His grace, by which
He kept me and is keeping me strong in my faith.
Every day I read my Bible and pray. I attend
Sabbath."
Church every Misak Abdulian."
This is from one of our teachers in the Boys'
School :
"Now we are in another school year. So far
things are promising. I hope that many of our stu
dents at both schools will take sides with the Lord's
way. I pray that many of them will be cultivated and
ready to grow the Lord's seeds. Kneel and pray for
our work. Pray that we may be given the Lord's
guidance.
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"We had meetings this past summer with Bas
sam Madany each Sabbath. I feel that life is going
O.K. with me as a Christian. I found that there is
nothing in the world more beautiful than to be a
true follower of Christ. Christ first and then the
Sadeek Yusuf, was in our high school
until two years ago and now is in another in Lata
kia studying for a higher degree.
The following is a quotation from one of the
teachers in our Girls' School. "My aunt Jaleeleh
sick ten days ago and had a dangerous
was very
operation in Dar-EI-Zor and the doctors thought she
would die. They sent us a telegram saying she was
very sick and that there was poor hope of her heal
ing. My grandmother and Aunt Wedad went to see
her and to pray to God with all our hearts to heal
her and God answered our prayers and today she
left the hospital but she has to stay in bed for
three months and have complete rest. She was given
seven pints of blood during and after the operation.
Really she was healed by a miracle from God."
"I'll be glad to have new ideas from you for Sab
bath School and the Girls' Fellowship Group."
This boy was a non-C!hristian who came to know
Christ while in our school and boarding department
and is now a freshman in college. "Sir, we are do
ing well and adjusting ourselves to the environment
around here. I have received a letter from a girl
in Orlando, Florida and I will be very happy to tell
her how I was born again. I hope that God will
work on those people and bring to Him as many
of those as will believe in Him. I do read the Bible
and pray constantly, but we are not having meet
ings by ourselves and that, I am sure, is a great
mistake of ours, but we will fix a time for a daily
meeting. Best wishes for you. Pray for us and we
will always pray for you. Sincerely yours, a warrior
for Christ, A. R."
These letters encouraged us very much and we
hope that it will encourage the "Witness" readers
too. Our hearts rejoiced last year to see so many
of the boys and girls accepting Christ as their
Saviour and going on to win others for Him, and
again we are gladdened to see these young people
continuing to live for Him. We are enjoying seeing
so many old and new Covenanter friends and being
in quite a few of our churches. May these young
people foe as Samuel was described; "And Samuel
grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none
of his words fall to the (I Sam. 3:19.)
GLIMPSES Continued from page 130
drinking milk wherever he goes. He shamed Americans by
his abstinence when he visited Washington recently. Possibly
America may yet learn a lesson in temperance from France."
All are now aware that Premier Mendes-France was
given a no-confidence vote in the House of Deputies in
France and has resigned. For consumption of the public it
was stated that the Deputies were opposed to him because
of his policy in North Africa, but it is this writer's guess
and there were hints given to this effect
that he was op
posed and deposed because of his strong stand on behalf of
temperance. Any one who has had a slight look on France,
and especially on Paris, cannot but see that it is steeped in
liquor and degraded by it, and it would require a most
mighty upheval and reform to root it out.
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