lady should want that. He told her that he had no class
he could give her then. She went away with a resolve to
do what she could outside of the school. One day, as she
was walking up the street, she saw a little boy running out
of a shoemaker's shop, and behind him was the old shoe-
`maker chasing him with a wooden last in his hand. He
had not run far until the last was thrown at him, and he
was struck in the back. The boy stopped and began to
cry.
The spirit of the Lord touched that young lady's
heart and she went to where he was.

him, and asked him if he was hurt.
none of her business.
boy's confidence.
He said, "No."
"Don't want to."

She stepped up to

He told her it was

She went to work then to win that She asked him if he went to school. "Well, why don't you go to school?" She asked him if he would not like to go to Sunday School. "If you will come," she said, "I will tell you beautiful stories and read nice books." She coaxed and pleaded with him,and at last said that if he would consent to go, she would meet him on the corner of a street which they should agree upon. He at last consented, and the next Sunday, true to his promise, he waited for her at the place designated. She took him by the hand and led him into the Sabbath School. "Can you give me a place to teach this little boy?" she asked of the superintendent. He looked at the boy, but they didn't have any such looking little ones in the school. A place was found, however, and she sat down in the corner and tried to win that soul for Christ. Many would look upon that with contempt, but she had got something to do for the Master. The little boy had never heard anybody sing so sweetly before. When he went home he was asked where he had been. "Been among the angels," he told his mother. He said he had been to the Protestant Sabbath School, but his father and mother told him he must not go there any more, or he would get a flogging. The next Sunday he went, and

when he came home he got the promised flogging. He went the second time and got a flogging, and also a third time with the same result. At last he said to his father, "I wish you would flog me before I go, and then I won't have to think of it when I am there." The father said, "If you go to that Sabbath-school again I will kill you." It was the father's custom to send his son out on the street to sell articles to the passers-by, and he told the boy that he might have the profits of what he sold on Saturday. The little fellow hastened to the young lady's house and said to her, "Father said that he would give me every Saturday to myself, and if you will just teach me then I will come to your house every Saturday afternoon. I wonder how many young ladies there are that would give up their Saturday afternoons just to teach one boy into the kingdom of God! Every Saturday afternoon that little boy was there at her house, and she tried to tell him the way to Christ. She labored with him, and at last the light of God's spirit broke upon his heart. One day while he was selling his wares at the railroad station, a train of cars approached unnoticed and passed over both his legs. A physician was summoned, and the first thing after he arrived, the little sufferer looked up into his face and said, "Doctor, will I live to get home?" No," said the doctor, "you are dying." "Will you tell my mother and father that I died a Christian?" They bore home the boy's corpse and with it the last message that he died a Christian. Oh, what a noble work was that young lady's in saving that little wanderer! How precious the remembrance to her! When she goes to heaven she will not be a stranger there. He will take her by the hand and lead her to the throne of Christ. She did the work cheerfully. Oh, may God teach us what our work is that we may do it for His glory.

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It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to

Christ, and it is a pleasure that angels can't enjoy. It is sometimes a wonder to me that God doesn't take the work out for the church and give it to the angels. If the redeemed saints could come by the bar, I sometimes think they would rejoice in coming back here to have the privilege of leading one more soul to Christ. Isn't it high time that the Church got awake from its midnight slumber? It is time the work was commenced, and when the Spirit of God revives it, sha'n't we go and do it? Are there not 5,000 Christians in this hall, and ain't there some one among them that can lead a soul to Christ within the next week? If we work, what a great army can be brought in, if we are only faithful! I want to say to the Christians here that there is one rule I have followed that has helped me wonderfully. I made it a rule that I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation, and if they didn't hear the Gospel from the lips of others, there will be 365 in a year that shall hear the Gospel from my lips. There are 5,000 Christians here to-night; can't they say, “We won't let a day pass without speaking a word to some one about the cause of Christ."

At a place where we were holding meetings, in the gasworks, there was a man who came to our very first meeting. He was very much interested, and said, "I will try and see if I can't lead some of the men in my shop to Christ." He began to talk with them. There were 175 men on the night watch, and when I left they said 25 out of the 175 had been converted, and every night at midnight-that is the hour they have what might be called their midnight dinner-and every night at midnight they have a prayer-meeting. When you and I sleep to-night all those young converts speak and pray, and it looks now as if every man in the gas works was going to be brought to Christ.

When we were in Belfast there was a man who heard about leading souls to Christ. He began by talking to

his wife, and to his servant, and to his children, and just as we were leaving Belfast they were very much interested, but not converted. He came down to Dublin-broke up his home, left his business, and came to Dublin. One night he came to me very joyous, and he says, "My wife has been converted." A little while after he came and said, "My younger son has been converted ;" and a little while after he said, "My oldest son has been converted." And now the whole family is in the ark. And he came over to Manchester, and he came up to London, and now perhaps in all Belfast there is not one that works harder than that whole family. Look at this man's success. He found his work was right there in his own household; and if the fathers and mothers, and sisters, and wives, and brothers will try to bring the members of their families to Christ, and cry 66 O God, teach me what my work is," the Spirit of God will surely tell them what their work is, and then if they are ready to go and do it, there will be thousands converted in this city in a few days. O, may the Spirit of the Lord come upon us to-night, and may every one of us be taught by the Holy Ghost what our work is, and may we be ready to do it.

LOVE AND SYMPATHY.

I WANT to follow up the subject we have had during the past week in the noon prayer meeting. We have had for our subject "Prayer," and in these meetings, a good many of you will remember, we have had the subject "Work." Now we want to put the two together, "Pray and Work." That is really about all there is to it. It is to pray and to work. I am in hopes we will be ready next Sabbath to go to work with individuals. I am in hopes there will be thousands of Christians that will just be trying to lead some soul to Christ. Now there are two qualifications which we need in order to be successful fishermen of men, in order to be successful in winning souls to Christ. Some of you will remember I have taken the subjects, "Courage and Enthusiasm." I want to take two others, "Love and Sympathy." I want to call your attention to the 13th chapter of Corinthians, where it says that if "I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal;" and if we even give our bodies to be burned and yet if we haven't real love in our hearts, our work will go for naught. I want to call your attention to a passage in Titus, in the 2d chapter of Titus, two verses: "But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine; that the aged men may be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity and in patience."