A Converted Jewess

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When after an absence of two years from America, I returned to spend a month with my church in Chicago, I found that a young Jewish woman, a very brilliant woman in the work she had to do, had been converted during my absence. Her conversion was very genuine. She was full of love to Christ as Jews generally are when they are converted. She went to the place where she worked, a well-known house in Chicago, and commenced talking of Christ to the other employees. Some of them did not like it, and they went to the head of the firm and said, “Miss is constantly talking to us about Christ. We don’t like it.” The manager of the firm called her in and said, “We have no objection to Christianity, no objection to your being a Christian. We think it is a good thing, but you must not talk it about this establishment.” “Very well,” she said, “I will not work in a place where I cannot take Christ with me and talk for my Master.” She had a family to support, an aged mother and other members of the family, and did not know where she was going—just converted from Judaism to Christianity. But she would not give up her loyalty to her new Master. “Very well,” they said, “you will have to lose your position.” “Very well,” she said, “I will give up my position before I will be disloyal to Jesus Christ.” They said, “Very well, go back to your work.” She went back to her work expecting every day to receive her dismissal. At the end of the week she received a letter from the manager. “Here is my discharge,” she said as she tore it open. The head of the establishment said, “We have a place of greater responsibility than the one you now occupy and with a larger salary than you are getting. We think you are just the person for the place, and we offer it to you.” They saw she could be trusted. Businessmen are looking for men and women whom they can trust.