Nor is
this all. The secretary supplies Bible women and city missionaries
with flowers for solitary sick ones at home, and receives constant
appeals from various, missions for these bright messengers of God's
love.
Who can read the following without praise to the Giver of every good
and perfect gift? Those who knew the condition of Spain had earnestly
prayed for evangelists for that dark land. One (Senor Previ) was
raised up through the instrumentality of the Bible Flower Mission,
and the following extract, from the report of a workers' meeting, as
given in the "Christian," tells of his conversion, and the way in
which the Lord led a fellow-labourer to join him in this almost
untrodden path.
"He came from Malaga in the summer of 1875 to the Ophthalmic
Hospital, Moorfields, for treatment. One afternoon, two ladies
belonging to the 'Bible Flower Mission' at the Home of Industry,
brought flowers and texts to give to the patients. One of the
visitors was about to offer a bouquet to the Spaniard, Senor Previ,
when the nurse remarked, 'It's of no use giving him a text, for he is
a Roman Catholic, and besides he can't speak a word of English.'
'Never mind,' was the reply, 'I will offer him a bunch of flowers,
and then see what I can do.
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