Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...Lord will help me, and we shall yet see God work wonders." 16. My wife was somewhat startled at the magnitude of the proposition, to think that I should undertake such a proposal with no money, no backing, no influence. With a family of three dependent upon me, how could I involve myself in such an expense. Besides the cost of the book, there were thousands of dollars I was promising for the Jewish work. It looked like a heavy burden, and I had no one who was especially interested in the project. But the more I thought of it, the more my faith in the plan grew, the more I felt that God would demonstrate that the man who was called to work for God and who really had faith in Him, would be prospered in proportion to that faith. 17. There was another reason I had for doing this: The Jews believe that the reason why a man becomes a missionary among the Jews is because he receives large sums of money from Christians for doing this sort of work. The reader may be interested to know that the Jews are taught by the rabbis that this gospel work the Jews do among thejr brethren is done solely for the financial advantage there is in it. I felt that if the blessed Lord would help me to sell these books, we could have some funds from a source which would prove to the Jews that there were people who loved them for what they could put into the work, rather than for what they could get out of it. 18. That the reader may have a clearer idea what I mean by this latter expression, one illustration will be given. While I was engaged in mission work in Boston among the Jews, one evening a number of young men came into the hall. They evidently came to have some entertainment at the expense of the missionary, and so started to raise questions and objections....
