CHRIST the SOUL-WINNER (Prov 11:30):John Pitezel and his wife served the Lord in n. Michigan from 1844 to 1846 on the edge of Keweenaw Bay. They longed for a breakthrough with the Indians but saw only opposition. Once, while evangelizing a mining crew many miles distant, he knelt praying. He was interrupted by Black Swallow, a man who worked for the mine. “Your baby very sick. You must go.” Pitezel gathered a few medicines at the mine store and headed into a fierce winter gale. Staggering through sleet and swamp, he often lost his way. When he finally arrived, the home was filled with angry men. Putting on a brave smile, he brushed past and fell to his knees with his wife at the crib. As the medicines took effect, Grey Wolf, the leader, said to John, “We came to kill and rob, but we see you help little one. My little one sick, too. You come?” Thus two sick babies led to an open door for the gospel and salvation to many of the native people in that area.