the precious secrets of his soul. It is not when the family are around, or when there is company there. So, when we want to get the secrets of heaven, we want to be alone with Jesus, and listen, that he may come and whisper to our souls. The richest hours I have ever had with God have not been in great assemblies like this; but sitting alone at the feet of Jesus. But, in these days of steam and telegraph, we cannot get time to listen to Christ's whisper in our ears. We are so busy, we do not chose that one thing needful. If we did, we would not talk so much as we would listen; and when we did speak, it would be only when we had something to say. We would hear words that came from the Master; and they would burn down deep into our souls, and bring forth fruit.

In the 20th chapter of Matthew, Sth verse, you read the words, "One is your Master." Ah, to learn who is your Master and serve him only! We are willing to serve our friends, to serve the church, to serve the public, and please every one; and forget the Lord. But we should just have one Master, and live to please him alone; and he should be the Lord of Glory. He is a good Master. I want to recommend him to you here to-day. If he is not your Master, then the devil is. Every one has a master, who is either Satan or Christ. you may not acknowledge it; you may not know it; but either the Lord of glory or else the Prince of the powers of darkness is the one you serve. Satan is a hard and cruel master. If you make mistakes under him, he will have no mercy for you. When you get into tuble, if you are in his service, you will have to suffer indeed; but with the Lord of glory for your master, if you make mistakes or fall into error, all you have to do is to go and confess to him; and he will forgive you quickly and smile upon you, and restore to you the joy of salvation, if you have lost it. Oh, that we might learn the sweet lesson that "One is our Master," and that one is Christ in heaven. Those men who are trying to serve the public, what do they gain? I pity those men in Washington, who are trying to serve the public. We send them there, and then turn and abuse them. Public men get nothing but abuse, after all. It is a hard thing to serve the public; but it is a glorious thing to serve Christ. I would a thousand timet rather have him for my master than the cruel, heartless, wretched world. To know that we have only one master, but one to please and to serve; to live with that idea in view all the while-one to please and one to glorify-is a most blessed thing. He is not a hard master. He knows we are liable to mistakes; and he is ready and willing to forgive. If Christ is such a glorious master, should we not be willing to sacrifice ourselves to him and give up all and follow him, and turn our back upon this fleeting world and live for him? When our country was in danger, how men laid down their lives and gave up everything for their country. The moment Abraham Lincoln called for 600,000 men, you could hear the tramp of their feet

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in every direction; and the song went up from all quarters: are coming, Father Abraham, 600,000 strong." All Mr. Lincolu had to do was to call; and the men came pouring in. Christ is calling for laborers. There are nations perishing for the want of the Gospel tidings. We are a long time getting them to the world. America has men enough and money enough to do it all, to send the Gospel around this globe. It is high time that this Gospel was proclaimed in every town and village and hamlet throughout the whole world. It would be very easy, if God's disciples would work together for it. Oh, my friends, if we have such a glorious Master, who has passed through heaven and is sitting on the right hand of God, calling for laborers, shall we withhold our lives and affection? Shall we not go into the vineyard and work for him? It is a glorious thing to have such a Master, a high, exalted privilege to be a co-worker with God. Let us remember our chieftain has gone on before. He bears even now at the throne of God those scars he received here for our sakes; he suffered and endured the cross, despising the shame, for the glory that was before him. Shall we excuse ourselves from work? Shall we say: "Do not send me, Lord; send some one else?" Oh, just to go into the heat of the battle! There has never been a time in your life, or mine, when we could work for our Lord and see such immediate fruits and results. It seems to me that all we have to do is to sow with one hand and reap with the other. The harvest seems to be white; the fields are waiting for the sickle; the voice of our master is calling us. Shall we hear that call in vain? Are there not thousands that shall say, "Lord, use me!" You, mothers, can be used; you, young men, can be used among your companions; you, gray-haired man, can be used in your declining days. Shall we not all go to work for him, while yet there is time?

There is "one thing" that Paul speaks of: "One thing I do.” Some one has said that the man who does one thing is a terrible man. I like to see those Christians who have a definite work, and are doing it. I like to see them work, in view of the heat and the burden of the day, and never weaken. I suppose it will turn out in New York, as it has in a great many other places where we have been, where a great many, having received a new spirit, are asking what they shall do. They are quickened into new life; they are all full of soul, full of life, and the fire burns in their souls; and they want to publish the tidings of salvation. The cry is, "What shall I do?" Let me say to you, find some one thing and do it well. Do not think anything you do for the Lord is a little work. What seems to you a little work may be the most mighty thing that has ever been done. You are a teacher in the Sunday-school, for example, and have a class of little boys; you do not know what these boys may become. There may be a Luther, there may be a Whitefield, there may be a John Bunyan there. You may call these

little boys to Christ; and they may go out and move the world like Luther. No one ever thought that little monk would become so mighty in God's hand. He shook the whole world; the Spirit of the living God came upon him. The dark clouds that settled upon his nation were lifted and beaten back. He drove them back. It is a great thing to turn our soul to Christ. Oh, find some one thing to do for the Savior; and do it well. "This one thing I do," said Paul. If he had folded his arms and said: "Oh, dear, the Christians are so cold we cannot do anything; if the church was wide awake we might." Never you mind whether the church is wide awake or not; you keep wide awake yourself. If you wait for the church, you will never do anything. I made up my mind, ten years ago, that I would go on as if there was not another man in the world but I to do the work. I knew I had to give my account of stewardship. I suppose they say of me: "Oh, he is a radical; he is a fanatic; he only has one idea." Well, it is a glorious idea. I would rather have that said of me than be a man of ten thousand ideas, and do nothing with them. To have one idea, and that idea Christ, that is the man for me; that is the man we want now. A man that has one idea, one desire, one thought, and that idea, that thought, that desire, Christ and him crucified-that is what this ing, perishing world wants now. It can get on without our rhetoric; it can get on without our fine speeches, without out eloquence. They do not want those; they want Christ and him crucified. Let that old colored man find his work, and go about it; let that young lady find her work, and do it. Don't go and get discouraged when you get to work, because you don't find everything prosperous as you expected. You cannot tell what will prosper. What you think is prosperity may turn out to be the worst thing you could have done, and the thing you have least hope of may turn out to be your great

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An old woman who was seventy-five years old had a Sabbathschool, two miles away among the mountains. One Sunday there came a terrible storm of rain; and she thought at first she would not go that day, but then she thought, "What if some one should go and not find me there?" Then she put on her waterproof, and umbrella, and overshoes, and away she went through the storm, two miles away, to the Sabbath-school in the mountains. When she got there she found one solitary young man, and taught him the best she knew how all the afternoon. She never saw him again, and I don't know but the old woman thought her Sabbath had been a failure. That week the young man enlisted in the army; and in a year or two after the old woman got a letter from the soldier, thanking her for going through the storm that Sunday. This young man thought that stormy day he would just go and see if the old woman was in earnest; and if she cared enough about our souls to go through the

rain. He found she came and taught him as carefully as if she was teaching the whole school, and God made that the occasion of winning that young man to Christ. When he lay dying in a hospital, he sent the message to the old woman that he would meet her in heaven. Was it not a glorious thing that she did not get discouraged, because she had but one school and scholar? Be willing to work with one. Bear in mind the words, "This one thing I do." I live for souls and for eternity; I want to win some soul to Christ. If you want this and work for it, eternity alone can tell the result. May God give us a passion for souls.

When Joshua was 110 years old, the old warrior lay dying, and he called the Elders in Israel around him; and as they gathered around his bedside, he gave them these words as his dying testimony. There stand the Elders in Israel, and he was the last one of the great leaders alive. Moses was gone; Aaron was gone; he was the only man that was at Mount Sinai, when the law was given from on high. They stood around his bedside, and heard his dying testimony. How it shined out! "Behold this day I am going the way of all the earth; and ye know in your hearts and in your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things that the Lord your God spoke concerning you." Is not that a high tribute? Had not God kept his word to them? The old warrior is going to rest, and this is his dying testimony: "Not one thing has failed. All things have been fulfilled." That is what the man has said who has tried God. Infidels won't try God, and of course they do not have such a peaceful end as the man who has taken God at his word.

Let us look over the six one things. "One thing thou lackest." Do you lack Christ? Oh, take him to-day! "One thing I know." Do you know you have got Christ? If you do not, do not go out of this house to-day without knowing it; step into the inquiryroom and talk with some of the Christian men and women who know they have salvation. Make up your mind you will not leave this house to-day till you can look up and read your "title clear to mansions in the sky." I would rather do that than have a title to all New York. I would rather have some poor soul, that I have won from this dark world to Christ, come and weep over my grave when I am gone, than to have a monument of pure gold reaching from earth to the skies. The next "one thing" is the "one thing that is needful." "One is your master," "Not one thing has failed," and "One thing I do." It in the privilege of each one to have all these "one things" and to know that you have them.

REAPING WHAT WE SOW..

"Be not deceived: God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.' GALATIANS 6: 7, 8.

It very easy for us to deceive ourselves and one another, and there is a good deal of deception in the world. But we cannot deceive God.

When we try to deceive him, we are thinking all the time that he is like us. We are told in Jermiah that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." Any man who leans on his own understanding will be deceived. How many times have we deceived others, and because we succeeded in doing so, thought we could deceive God; but we cannot do it. You may mock us; but whatever you do in that way, don't mock God. I was reading, some time ago, of a young man who had just come out of a saloon, and had mounted his horse. As a certain deacon passed on his way to church, he followed the deacon and said, "Deacon, can you tell me how far it is to hell?" The deacon's heart was pained, to think that a young man like that shonld talk so lightly; he passed on and said nothing. When he came round the corner to the church, he found that the horse had thrown that young man, and he was dead. you may be nearer the Judgment than you think. Now, in the first place, a man expects to reap. That is true in the natural world; men are sowing and planting, and what for? Why, to reap. And so it holds true, you will find, in the spiritural world. Not only that, when he sows he expects to reap more than he sows, and the same that he sows. If he sows wheat, he doesn't expect to get potatoes; if he wants wheat he sows wheat. If a man learns the trade of a car

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penter, he don't expect to be a blacksmith. It says in the fifth chapter of Matthew: "Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." See how God has dealt with the nations. See if they have not reaped what they sowed. What has become of the monarchs and empires of the world? What brought ruin on Babylon? Why, her king and people would not obey God, and ruin came upon them. What has become of Greece and all its power? It once ruled the world. What has become of Rome and all its greatness? When their cup of iniquity was full, it was dashed to the ground. What has become of the Jews? They rejected salvation, persecuted God's messengers, and crucified their Redeemer; and we find eleven hundred thousand of them perished at one time. Oh, my friends, it is