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Ppoeeedings Fifth Convei^ioo of Chfistien Ulofketrs in the United States ittkd Ga&ade. 4 y^v. ^ / / ~:;^32aii--i72::'Sffi^55^^ *^^1S^'"^''<^ I PERSONAL CHl^ISTIAfl WORK; WHY AND HOW. \- : v:^=^ - " g o Seleetions fpom ** t^eaehing the Masses and Houi it is Done.'* Pfoeeedings Fifth Convention of Christian LUotrkeirs in the United States and Canada. 1 ;t Copyrif^ht, \%()\, by John C. Collins, Secretary. BUREAU OK BUFPLIEB, FIBST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, NEW HAVEN, CONN. ■• ^J.L.'Jll.^iL.", *— • A' (\- ^""S / Additional copies of this booklet " Persona' Christian IVork ; IV/iy and Hoii> " tan fie ob- tained by addressing Bureau of Supplies, First National Rank Building, New Haven, Conn. Ten cents per single copy ; one dollar per one dozen copies ; two dollars per thirty copies .• five dollars per one hundred copies. The Bureau of Supplies pays the postage. ..^ .' ^ " Beaching the Af asses and //ora it is Done " — Proceedings of the Fifth Cornvntion of Christian Workers in the United States and Canada, from which the selections in this booklet are made, can be obtained by addressing the Bureau of Supplies, First National Bank Building, New Haven, Conn. One dollar per copy. For full description and " ho7i> to send money " see " Appendix," r. T i """""T^ s4> 6 (0 1 lA f« ^ /r7 U /^ i la ^)^ /i i '■■■'f ''^^^'^; ^•■¥''-'" *»Sft*/' ■■ ,i;'j -^.(v-; 3 f''>','i >','.( «'?■'•; I' 7 -I .■ ,. ^^iii PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. i While spending a few days recently in evangelistic work witn a well known evangelist I was greatly impressed with the need of some printed help containing more definite instruction than anything I then knew of which could be distributed among Christian people who are interested and desire to engage personally in the work of winning souls. Such a help ought not, it appeared to me, to be pre- pared as a book of instruction or text book with more or less dry deta'ls, but so arranged, and with incident and illustration, that it would be read with interest as well as a means of gathering information, I was also much impressed in ob- serving how few Christians there were among the hundreds who attended these meetings who would engage, in response to the request of the evangelist, in personal effort with those who were not Christians, and yet there seemed to be great willingness to do this work. The difficulty seemed to be more a want of knowledge how to do the work, how to approach unconverted persons am! what to say, but. above all, there appeared to be a need of what is commonly spoken of in the phraseology of Christian life and work as "assurance" and personal spiritual power. While thinkmg and praying about this matter, the thought came to mi that at the Fifth Convention of Christian Workers in the United States and Caiada, held in Hartford,' Connecticut, ? It will so add to its interest as to largely increas«; its usefulness. At the same time It must be borne in mind that the selections are detached sentences, parts of Convention addresses, questions, etc. In making the selections I have taken the book page by page and selected not all the references, statements, etc. bearing upon personal Christian W(Tk, but nuch portions as I thought would be most helpful. It is very interesting to me to note how aptly incident and illustration, exhortation, warnmg and encourage- ment, and Scripture texts are interwoven in the pages. A more methodical and logical arrangement would have put into separate chapters the matter relating to the various subjects, but I believe that the arrangement, which I have adopted will be more interesting and helpful, and among other reasons, because it is out of the ordinary and precise way. It is suggestive that in this arrangement the very first selection bears upon the necessity of •' starting right " — putting away sin, of having no prejudices,but seeing the Christ in a man and not some trifling unimportant saying, way or manner, which after all is outside, and without real con- nection or importance, and of having the Spirit which is also the glorious privilege of those who work " In His Name." It is notewonhy also that the very last selection — made, of course, because it was the last appropriate passage in the book — is from the Word itself, a command and prophecy or promise to the one who reads and obeys and to whom this little book may open a door into the " joy of the Lord." I very much desire also that this booklet " Personal Christian Work ; Why and How," may prove an introduction for " Reaching the Masses and How it is Done," from which the selections are made, and that many who read it may be led on to a more full and complete knowledge of ways and means, which will be found in this latter book, which is both a storehouse of facts and methods of Christian work and a wonder-story of God's doings in these latter days. This book, I may say in a word, contains four hundred and sixty pages of the same size and printed in the same type, paper, etc , as this pamphlet. It con- tains cuts of three different Gospel wagons, Gospel-tent, 'jortraits of speakers, plans of a great modern city mission building — the new Vanderbilt Mission, 43d St., New York city, — portrait of group of boys in a Boys' Club, etc., etc. I am willing to take the responsibility of strongly recommending that each reader of this booklet obtain a copy of " Reaching the Masses and How it is Done," as I am confident that any one doing so will be greatly instructed, inspired and en- couraged in this great work of the Lord Jesus through His servants among the lost. By referring to the appendix, the reader will find a brief sketch of the Com- mittee and those associated with them under whose auspices the Conventions are held and of whose fifth assembly " Reaching the Masses and How it is Done," is the report, also brief notes concerning the different speakers who are men- tioned in this pamphlet and a list of some of the principle subjects in the Re- ports of the several Conventions. I have had it in mind to add a word to this preface and introduction con- cerning the need of p ..sonal Christian effort. Why such work should be under- taken is set forth sufficiently in the booklet itself, and whatever is there said or might be added here is of secondary importance and a mere setting to the words • ft i ' w- 4 > ■ '4 i * t a m $ imtt i' *, t i^^Mi ^^ffi " -. •■WJJ'SW ."t^^ ^CfHr' ii. At the same ntenccs, parts of age and selected 'istian work, but titeresi ing to me and encourage- methodical and alter relating to I have adopted because it is out irrangement the —putting away ot some trifling Hthout real con- lorious privilege :ry last selection n the book — is one who reads the "joy of the n Work ; Why i and How it is read it may be i, which will be ind methods of :er days. This pages of the iphlet. U cen- ts of speakers, It Mission, 42d :tc., etc. I am each reader of is Done," as I spired and en- nts among the h of the Com- onventions are w it is Done," who are men- :cts in the Re- 'oduction con- Duld be under- 5 there said or l to the words PREFACE ANI» INTRODUCTION. of the Master Himself. " Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." The need of such work is implied in this command, and it is unquestionably a part of the obligation of every Christian to preach the Gospel, using such talent and opportunity as may be given in winning a lost world to a knowledge of the Saviour of men. Men are not saved in an abstract or general way by a church or a body of Christians associating themselves together. They must be saved singly, one by one and by face-to-face, hand-to-hand personal work. This is what I believe is meant by the Command of Christ, and the disregard of which has resulted in leaving over forty millions in the United States alone outside of the church of the Lord Jesus. It is my prayer that this little book may do some- thing in arousing those who have hitherto considered this obligation lightly and directing others who arc willing to take up the " light burden " of personal Christian effort. New Haven, Conn., June, 1891. JOHN C. COLLINS. \ il .( ' ; t ■■ft> Vt.''!'*5;' ','/■ ■■.: !■:',• PEf^SONAti CHt^ISTIAH WOf^K WHY AND HOW. STARTING RIGHT. :• 1 was walking with our drar Brother Clarke this morning and we were talk- ing over mission experiences. It always makes us happy to talk with him. He was telling about a poor brother, who got saved, and atx)ut his attempts to tell a truth from the Word. He said this brother's opportunities had not been very good ; his knowledge of reading and writing was limited, and he made some very queer mistakes, but sometimes his mistakes contained great truths. He was trying to say this text, " Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us," and he said, " Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that i>o easily upsets us." That is what we want to do this morning. We want to lay aside every v/eight and the sin that easily upsets us. There is a great truth in that, a great underlying truth. We want to start right. If there is anything between us and the Lord, let us lay aside every weight and sin that so easily up- sets us. We want to have no prejudices. My dear brother, who was walking with me this morning said, " I have learned to look for Jesus in a man. I do not look for his faults or the differences between him and me. I know, that, if he is a saved man, there lives in him the Son of God, and, if I can see Jesus in him, I am satisfied. That blessed Spirit can come and live and abide n us, and, then, as we realize it and believe it, out from us flow the rivers of living water. And, glory to God! He will flow through the poorest and the weakest. I think He loves to flow out of weakness. It seems to me that the greatest blessings I have seen is where I have sown some seed in weakness, and there has not been thought, hope, expecution or anything else, yet the Lord has taken it, and it has all blosson?- i out. — W. H. Hawlahd, pages 7, 9, 10. CHIEF THINGS. First, let us magnify Jesus; let us magnify Jesus. .„ Second, let us forget ourselves. Let us try to help the weaker brethren. Fourth, let us keep our eyes always unto the Lord. I went into a mission Uie other night in New York and the man that lead the meeting kept saying — I do not know what his name is, but they call him Happy Tommy — " Keep pray- ing ; brethren, keep praying ; brethren, keep praying." I guess they did, for the \ 1 PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK. presence of God was very manifestly present there in the conversion of sinners. A man was present from Massachusetts and he said, " It is the happiest time I ever had in my life." I saw him actually hug a poor drunken backslider who was reclaimed that night. Let us keep praying. I remcmjjer the first Christian Workers' Convention. I came in a little late. I did not suppose any one knew me but Mr. Collins. 1 had heen there about five minutes and they read off the nominations, and I was nominated as Chairman of the Convention. I was surprised, for I certainly did not deserve the name of Christian worker. I was the pastor of a little church in Minneapolis. And, when I lookea over that Convention I said to myself, " How can I ever preside at such a Convention as this .'" I went home to my room at the hotel and 1 l.nelt down before Him, to whom I look for help, and I asked Him for wisdom. I asked Him to take charge a the Convention. Everybody said that the Convention would break up in a row ; but, friends, it did not break up in a row. There was the sweetest fellowship, and there was the greatest uplift 1 had ever seen in my life up to that time. The whole secret of it was that not only one, but many of us went to ou. rooms and homes and looked up to God for the blessing we expected to receive, and we had it. Prayer ! Prayer! Just looking to God in humble, expectant trust is the secret • • more than anything else. * * When anything comes up that is unpleasant, let us take it to God in prayer and say, " Fai.her, you take care of that," and He will do it. One thing more; let us look to God for power. 1 agree heartily with our Brother 'he pastor of this church, that the Holy .Spirit stands waiting, wanting to come into all our hearts, but along with it I put those words of our Master, " 1 f ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifis unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him," and that thought of the apostle James when he says, " Ye have not, be- cause ye ask not." It is true that the Spirit of God is here. It is true that ►'nc Spirit of God is knocking at all our hearts. It is true as Mayor Howland said that the Spirit of God no- .' dwells within us, since Christ is glorified, and it is true, as our Brother said, we have to open the doors and we have to open the windows, and the main thing in opening the windows and doors is to put away sin and be ready for the Spirit of God to use us. That is true. That is God's whole truth and that is the reason why so many of us have not the power of the Holy Spirit, because tlic sin is not put away and we are not willing that God shall use us in His own way. When that in done, just ask and expect and He comes. Oh, He tomesl—Jiev. J!. A. Torrey {Chairman), pages i8, 19. THE CHURCH AT WORK. The whole church at work means the whole world soon saved. The object of such work is •' to give the church that unity of impression through its activities that already exist through its faith." The motive for such work is human want. Thank Cod the Christian church confronts no sleek and well-filled universe ; it stares out into vacancy. 1 •»m sometimes askfcd, how to get people to do church work, I reply, " Ask them.'' Ask a definite thing of even the average church member, and it will be • ;;|;'^ilf»mf>t»[' I' I iij |i--^-i"'tV^:-J -.^-jy. ■"•**'*^'5'-41"'^--ilE/'r HAND-PICKING IN SOUL WINNING. iion of sinners, lappiest time I lackslider who s' Convention. Collins. I had ins, and I was I certainly did a little church laid to myself. It home to my for help, and I s Convention, .friends, it did there was the ole secret of it les and looked it. Prayer ! : secret » • )leasant, let us " and He will rtily with our ig, wanting to ir Master, " ! f 5n, how much them that asic have not, be- ! true that the Howland said ified, and it is 'e to open the 5 to put away rhat is God's power of the ling that God xpect and He 8, 19. if impression the Christian vacancy, reply, " Ask nd it will be hard for him to refuse, if in his power. In the last five years I have personally asked over two hundred persons to be Christians without refusal. Dozens of church members in Winsted on request have spoken to the unconverted. — AVt. H. N, Kinney, page 30, ^ , ! ,. . - <' ' :': . HAND-PICKING IN SOUL WINNING. V' /• " You all know something about fruit in orchards, and you know about the different ways of getting possession of the fruit. Some people are satisfied, especially very little folks, to go under the tree and pick up the fallen and bruised fruit they may find there. Some are very impatient and incline to shake the fruit down and so do damage to it. Then there are others, who carefully select what they want and see when it is ripe, and they pick it off carefully and put it in a proper vessel, and it comes to our tables so beautiful and fresh and so bright, and we have it during the cold season in the d. rs when other fruit will not keep. If you have that thought in mind, you have the line on which I am going to say a little to you this afternoon. Now in just dealing with this, so far as we ourselves personally have to do with the hand-picking of souls, I want to say, there is always a great deal of haste, a great deal too much haste in the present day in that work. We take hold of a soul we never saw before, and we expect we are going to take that soul and put it into the Lord's basket by a motion of the hand and have it secure there in a moment. Well, we know the Lord can do all that, and nobody is better satisfied as to the facts of instantaneous conversions than I am. but I have come to this conclusion, that, before a soul can be saved, it must understand that It needs to be saved. There must have been a conviction of sin. Whether understood or realized, there must have been a conviction — of necessity, a con- viction of sin, before there could be salvation. Now, about the conviction of sini You knov. he Spirit does that. The Spirit's office is to convince of sin. Some- times, I think we expect to do the Spirit's work. We are used by the Spirit of God to say His Word, but, semember, He is to do the work. Where does He start from } Remember that the Lord Jesus Christ incarnates Himself in every believer to save souls. It is not that the believer saves souls, but the Lord Jesus Christ limits Himself to the believer as an agency and incarnates Himself in every believer for the purpose of saving souls. Now then, the Spirit of God resident in the believer, the Lord Jesus in a believer, sends conviction, by means of the agency of the believer, to the soul — using the believer simply as an agency. Before the Spirit can use us, there has got to be a very earnest, heart-burn- ing desire for the salvation of souls. If that is not the case, you will find you have little to do with the saving of souls, becaus" underneath must lie the great principle, " Out of the abundance of the heart, ihe mouth speaketh." The mouth does not speak right, unless you love soul?. Unless you beliove that unsaved souls are going to eternal damnation and you love them and believe that Jesus Christ came to save them, you will not have much to do with saving souls ; you don't get hear them ; you don't touch them, You want to know why you have not done it ? It requires an earnest, intense faith and understanding of these principles. I haven't got much faith in the mysterious way in which people come up or •1" c •i > '•r '.' I 'I, l(. lO PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK. grow up and slip into Christ and am tell nothing aboat the process of it. I never saw much good come out of them They haven't got any firmness. It is not safe business. I won't deny it. 1 never want to deny anytMag that has got anything of Christ in it. but I tell you it is a blessed thing to go through the conviction of sin and have sick nights for sin and know you are saved from your sins by the Saviour who came to do it and have the blessed sense of the living, glorious Saviour that forgave your sins and took you up and clothed you in the white garments and put His mark on your forehead and gave you the Word in your hearts with the pardon. Let us understand in our work, and let us be- lieve that the Word of God will carry conviction, and let us look for it in this work of ours. We have got to realize that it is God's work to do the saving. If you really believe, you dear Christian people here, that you are going out to be used by che Holy Ghost and that He will say words through you that shall save a man and make him a child of God and give him eternal life, you must get the conviction in your souls that you have nothing to do with the saving of souls except as a medium. The Holy Ghost and the Lord Jesus do the saving from the beginning to the end. Let us look at the method of our Lord Jesus Christ. He did a great deal of hand-picking. I believe we have not got a right impression about His way of working, which was more than most of us think just hand-picking souls, tak- ing one soul at a time and working at it. The best sermons we have in the Word of God, and the most practical in every detail, are His sermons to one per- son, where He absolutely goes over everything that needs to be gone over to save a soul. Take the woman of Samaria. The first thing she began or was a theological discussion. I never saw a man saved by getting into a church or theological discussion. Just, when she thought she had got Him, He just acks her a little simple question, " Where is your 'lUbband ? " And she said, " I have no husband." He said, " Thou hast had five hosbands," etc. He convinces her of sin. He sends the dart into her heart, and all the theology and all the at- tempts to go into a church talk goes out, and there is a woman convinced of sin. She brings up the question as to where they shall worship. Jesus goes on talk- ing to her, until she feels she can neither worship nor pray, but she feels she must have something to save her. and she says " When the Messiah comes He will tell us all things." Then Christ reveals Himself by his word and saves her soul. You see what a beautiful piece of hand-picking that was. But there has to be the comnction of sin. They never would have got beyond Jerusalem and Samaria in their talk, never in the world, unless He had got her convinced of sin. You get a soul convinced of sin, and all that goes down to the ground ; you have got the heart stirred, the soul before God, and it is another operation ahogether. \ ■ •• Well, now you see how conviction of sin comes before conversion. I remem- ber one case where there was a soul converted and a soul convicted of sin at the same time, though the latter was not converted until afi^ a long interval. It was a case of work with both hands. I went to see a woman in our mission district with a young lady, who took an interest in cinldren. The young lady was very careless and worldly, but she had a liking for children. -B»" in .|>| J ■ ft i nllTfl M6 W it AtrtfM^I' Mi i* > rft' M ' iii i iii i i <' ii ' I ' I ocess of it. I rmnesB. It is I that has got > through the ired from your : of the living, led you in the I the Word in and let us be- k for it in this If you really e used by che K a man and he conviction Is except as a the beginning I a great deal X)ut His way ig souls, tak- have in the s to one per- gone over to jan or. was a > a church or He just acks aid, " I have ■it convinces nd all the at- dnced of sin. ;oes on talk- she feels she th comes He ■D and saves . But there d Jerusalem sr convinced the ground ; er operation n. I remem- of sin at the ng interval, a woman Idren. The tor children. HAND-PICKING IN SOVL WINNING m and, so she used to come to our mission sometimes to be kind to these little children. She happened to be with mt this morning and she went in with me. When I went in, I saw the woman in the house was under conviction of sin, and I just said to myself, " Here is a bit of hand-picking." Then I began to put it to her plainly, and the Spirit strove with her, and she fought like a tiger. When the devil feels his hold going, it is like that poor lad, whom, when the Lord spoke, the devil tore. So it was with her, when that battle was going on, until finally a message of the Lord came, and there was deliverance and peace in a moment. This young lady stood there and her face got long and sorrowful, and when we went out I said, " Did not you see that blessing ? Did not you see the shine come into her eyes ? Didn't you hear the praise coming out of her mouth } Don't you understand what that is ? " She said, " I do not want to understand anything about it." She kept coming, however, to the mission for three years. She could not keep away. She was converted three months ago. In the meantime every word went to her heart like a knife. God had commenced His work in her soul. The natural self struggled and fought against it, but, bless you ! it was God's work. He had undertaken to do the work in his own time, and he picked the soul and gathered it when it was ripe. Nicodemus ! I love to think of the Lord's work with him. It has given us the best sermon in the Bible. I wonder what we would do if we could not some- times say, " God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." What did the Lord do to Nicodemus ? He smashed his theology right up the first thing He did. There was nothing left to it. He said, " How can these things be ? " All his goodness, theology and everything— all gone to smash in this new truth. [Laughter.] " How can a man be bom again ? " He storms, almost. The man is utterly upset, and, then, comes on the great sermon that runs from mystery to love and from love to judgment and from judgment to glory. And Nicodemus ? All we can tell about him is that we find him going out earnestly and faithfully and courageously to take care of the Lord's body, one of the two trusted men. I think he got well saved, and, if the Lord had not smashed up his theology, he would not have been saved. I see this in the work of salvation. I see this smashing up of theology right and left. I see a man, who has been brought up a strict Calvinist, converted in a Methodist meeting. I see a man, who is born a Baptist, being converted in an Episcopal meeting. What it means is not that one is better than another, but it means that, before they can be saved, their theology has got to be smashed up. [Applause.] I believe in doctrine, but an unsaved soul built up and fenced in with doctrine is nearer hell than the most miserable drunkard. Doctrine is safe food for the sons of God only. Leading men to the Saviour is always done by His Word. It is only /Ae Word, THE LIVING WORD that saves souls. I am becoming more and more convinced that God uses only His Word. I am always afraid, when I see souls that appear to be saved by workers that nm about without any Bibles. Unless THE WORD is given to the heart, I haven't got much faith in the opoation being complete. That soul is saved. What did you give it f What did you give it ? There is just one thing that saves the soul, and that is the Word. 1 want to ri I 4 «.f-'flR»«rvry*^B« > -T I (, ■ 1 ii;. > I! I 11 i la PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK. prove It, very simply, by the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ never converted people by the sight of His living personality. It was always by His Word, ALWAYS. Suppose you take the two cases, I have given you. Take the woman of Samaria and you will find that it will prove this. The personal presence of Jesus had no effect upon the woman at all. It was not till He turned and gave her His Word that He was the Messiah, that she was saved. Sometimes it is a recollection, but it is always the Word. Jesus Christ re- veals by His own Word and in His own way. I was converted by a text on the Ivall. It followed me, until I found Christ. It is always th? Word, and that is the reason I want to impress it upon you. I remember a certain case, where there was just this in answer to prayer. It was a very respectable man, who had been brought up religiously, but was not converted till two or three weeks before his death, and he was in great distress about it. It seemed to him his life had been wasted and there was no good in it. He was in terrible trouble over it. I went to see him and was talking with him, but he did not seem to be able to comprehend. Finally, I seemed to be led to do this way. I showed him the truth in the Word. I put the Bible on his chest, for he was unable to sit up, and said, " I am going to pray down here beside you, and, when the Lord sends you light and as soon as you feel it is true and you can believe, put your hand in that place, on this text here in the Word, which I have read lo you." I prayed, and the Lord led me to pray very earnestly. All at once the hand went slap, and I lost a good Bagster Bible, for he tore clear through one of the pages, but there was a soul saved. — W. H. Houiland, pages 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45. There must be a deep conviction, and it must be by God's Holy Spirit and by God's Word. To illustrate this : on the train coming down, there was a reporter, and I asked him about his soul. He laughed at me and ridiculed the idea. In a case like that, God ^as always ied me to use the sharp passages of the Word. On such a one as that I use such passages as Mark xvi : 16 and John iti : 36. I could see him wince, but still he laughed. As I was about to lum in and go to sleep he said, " I would like to talk to you, before you go to bed. I am afraid this train will go off the track." [Laughter.] I went back to the other room and found that he was under deep conviction. He was ready to believe and come to Christ.— Z>. L. Davis, page 45. I would like to say a word with reference to power being in the Word. Some time ago Mr. Blake of Toronto was asked to address a meeting in the basement of one of our Ottawa churches. It was durin); rhe session of Parlia- ment, and there was a member, who was known as a skeptic, .-^t the meeting. At the close of the meeting he went up to Mr. Blake and said, " That is all very well, but It is a book for old women. I dp not believe one word of it." Mr. Bla'te said, " Perhaps some do not believe. ' Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect ? God forbid : yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.' " The man said, " Do you mean to call me a liar ? I tell you I do not believe your book, and what is more, I do not believe in your God." Mr. Blake replieu, " I am not surpri^d at that, ' The fool hath said In his heart, there is no God.' * -■ VtirHiiriinMilt Wg!^ «f«IJWl*(»««i mmm ««i;. iHii««i«r;iiTii"iini?iii'Kimiifiw>trm'i .^er converted His Word, ce the woman il presence of led and gave ius Christ re- a text on the I. and that is 1 case, where an, who had weeks before > his life had le over it. I :o be able to wed him the sit up, and d sends you hand in that prayed, and slap, aod I pages, but f Spirit and orter, and I In a case kVord. On 1 iii : 36. I I and go to t am afraid )ther room Jelieve and the Word, ting in the of Pariia- Eeting. At is all very Mr. BlaKe : faith of 1 a liar.' " ot believe se replieu, 10 God.'" HAND-PICK!NG IN SOUL WINNING. I3 The man was in quite a passion and left the church, but it seemed as if with every step came those words which he had heard. He went to his hotel, but could not rest. And that Word of God proved, as the gentleman was told after- wards, to have been to the man the sword of the Spirit, in opening up the abscess of sin, and a soul was born that night.— .J/m B. H. Wright, page 46. . . I am sure, dear friends, — A Delegate, page ^6. There is on every tree fruit, ripe fruit and fruit just getting ripe and some that is green. You better not waste much of your time on the green until you get the ripe off or the ripe may stay too long and get injured by falling. You should not be in despair, if you find one that looks ripe and hangs to the limb. Give it a little harder twist and it will come off. If it seems a little green, lay it in the sunshine of God's love a few moments and it will turn ripe, but don't waste your energy too much on green fruit. There are some people that want the Gospel pounded into them. You have to preach and testify and read God's Word, and then it seems to be like water running off a duck's back and does not have any effect at all. You had better let these men alone awhile. They are like the swine before whom you must not cast pearls. Such are those who know more than is written in God's Word. Don't waste too much time on them at first. When they get ripe, you can go and pick them. We have had real good men and women come to the mission from the churches. There are, perhaps, two hundred and fifty who remain to the after-meeting, and out of that number the e are, perhaps, thirty or fortv ripe ones and a good many green ones. These gnd people would go after the green ones. I remenrtber one dear man who came rushing to me one night and said, " I have got a soul." I looked at him and saw that he had a man who had been up at least three hundred nights in a year. That man had spenfconsiderable time in getting him up there to the altar, and thought he had achieved a big thing, but he did not know enough about that fruit. Another time I found him working With a hardened sinner, who came in looking for a night's lodging. And ;t3 f If I'' ■-■ ■c^f.v.-^.i^wffmi iiMV^r- '4 PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK. "1, ' '' ;r 'r I before that swine. He has had pearls cast before hi, feet for t.vo or th^ ^^^ He alwayMramps them under his feet. Let him alone a little whik" I S the best thmg is to get down before God and ask H^im aslc the Hnf. rilv. fin yo" and enlighten you and give you wi«lom " "haf y^i' " L^^^^^^^ speak to a man and hear him say a woixi. whether he is one that the Ho7y Gh^t iTnd tC 1 ""' ?? "i'^ " "°^' ^'' ''"" ^ '^-'^ *-d -d pass ontanoi" I find that to work the best in our mission work, and we los^ less la' ur ?nTh!^' than any other way.-G,/. G^. R. Clarke, fages 46. 47. ^^'^ With reference to this matter of conviction of sin i* ;« =. ^^. • kept for SIX months away from Christ on the ground that IhaH n« ^Z enough, and I might have been kept away untifZ time f sJme Chir'n"; not had intelligence enough to say.^.CoL to the LrjesuTchrist S He w.Ilg,veyou conv>ct.on." I worked and toiled and priyed and wept and J deZSfldT ' ■■"' ""t ' "^^^ '" ■'°^" «""y^" '" -hich he She w j determmed to persevere m the race till the moss grew over his eyebrows I s^^^ M wni pray and plead and pray and plead so that I can be saved '• W^S' somebody had enough of the Gospel in their hearts to say. "cletoS Chnst and let H.m g.vc you conviction." When I was all wLed Z 1 came I thmk many persons are in exactly that position I never shall forget a young man. who. when we asked him abcut his person- P^T^' ^'^ ''"' ''°^- " ^ *^ '°r *«=ks trying to get convXr I was so bothered about it I could not sleep nights. I wfnt to^^ funeral and I heard them s.ng a hymn. ' Asleep in Jesus.' It was the first time Had "te on?' TT H tV k'^""" '° ""^ '^"^'^ ""'^ «° '° ^'"^P - i^^- I wi d«d Ta^ y"doubtedly he mterpreted the hymn a little different from what is n tw'lt " ''' "«»>' thing-just to lie down and go to sleepTnT^us "' Uke Him Lw • I '"f,' "°^- ''°" ""^ "°' *^* ^°' 'he morrow. Just WH T" . "^^"^ '° '"" y°" "'^^ 'h*= ™°«' remarkable experience I ever heard was that of a m.ssionary (I wish you could all have heard Tt)onThe Congo, who had labored seven year, in the midst of those AW anf Jthout a «'ngle convert. His story is most instructive. I heard it last week HeS L SiTh" T':;"^ '''" ^° '"^'^ '"^ ^°^P^'- "^ -"t home o England and told them h.s discouragement and asked. <■ What shall I do ? " They Sd Go back and give them the law." He said. " I went back armed with the Ten t?«r'", r"''- ',^°"''' ''''"' ^"" "P ^"^ ^y- ' Haven't you broCthatInd hat and they cared no mor* about it than as though they had nevlr hirdk Gospel and called on them to help me translate it. I read the sto^r of Jesus Oirfat I told that stonr over and over again, they began to melt and, within a monST the inquiry he was talic- you got any "t cast them three years. I believe Gisost to so now as you Holy Ghost to another. i' or in that t important that I was conviction niitian had t and He fept, and I aid he was vs. I said, I" Well. le to Jesus It, 1 came. lis person- 'ittion. I ral, and I had ever was tired 'hat is in- esus. of experi- 'ow. Just ice I ever i) on the without i He said England hey said, the Ten that and heard it. ting the IS Christ When i month. ■1,4 COMMUNION WITH CHRIST. S$ I had the names of one thousand and three, whom I believe were fully con- verted." That is the story. How simple it is. " The Son of man is come to seek anc! to save that which was lost." If you search the Scriptures, it is all summed up in this, Jesus Christ ^/V WORK- way through. Communion, as I under.stand it, is delighting in what God de- lights in. Let us linger more at His blessed feet. Let us be silent before Him and see what word the Lord will speak.— .>//'« //. H, Wright, page 64. THE MODEL WORKER. How plainly He stated the fact of His mission ! And He could put so much in a few words, while you and I take a great many when we have some- thing to tell. He gathered up the story, put it into a single sentence and threw it, as it were, across the world's darkness and need, when He said, " For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." I do not suppose there is a person here who does not believe that, but I would like to speak to the heart of each man and woman who bears the name of the Lord Jesus and couple for- ever in your hearts another verse. The dear Master, looking into the face of the Father, said, ' As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world," and then looking into the faces of His disciples He said. •' As. my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." j Suppose .some of you had just returned from a trip across the water, and you were d<;scribing to a friend a perilous trip and you said, " As we sailed across the waters we saw dismantled ships. We saw many a wreck. We saw men and women floating upon spars and drifting hopelessly." Suppose that friend inquired, " What did you do about it ? " and you said, " I just kept myself from falling overboard." What would such a friend think of you .' You would be ashamed to tell it to any one, that you did not put forth any effort to save. No one will ever reach the highest in their mission, unless their aim is the highest. The dear Lord Jesus said, " I have glorified thee on the earth : I have finished the work which thou gavest me to dc " Here He announces the highest aim, " I have glorified thee on the earth : I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." Again He says, " I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me," and so great was His desire to carry out the commission that His Father had given Him that He said, " My meat is to do the will of him that sent me." Then there is another thing, which the model worker must have. He must have not only a mission and an aim, but he must be anointed for the work. " The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the (lospel to the poor ; He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach de- liverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised." Dear friends, you get here your programme for the work you are to do. He has never changed it. When He sent back word to John, who had sent to know if He were the one who should come or if they should look for another. He said, " Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard ; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached." Sometimes it seems, friends, that we of the church have drifted away from Christianity's original programme. Oh, may we not have to wait to drift back to it, but let us GO back to it. " Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." We need the anointing. Christian workers, for the work. God pitj- anybody, "> i j it Miowni i i i rt i iiM ii fMi Miiii i r w. iMnt Mini — I , THE MODKl. WOKKEK. If 1 what God de- em before Him rtiV 64. could put so we have some- !nce and threw " For the Son '■ suppose there Jk to the heart nd couple for- the face of the >ve I also sent iples He said. 'ater, atid you sailed across We saw men se that friend t myself from ^ou would be 3 save. eir aim is the arth : I have •s the highest c which thou vords which mission that : will of him ■• He must r the work. J preach the ) preach de- H at liberty ime for the •k word to or if they ; things ye lepers are preached." away from {/■/back to ipon you." anybody, 1 who gets in a hurry to go to work, and goes out without the anointing and works and hurries and is just building up with wood, hay and stubble, which will be burned up when the world is over ! It seems pitiful that anybody should build up work, even Christian work, and yet suffer the loss and have it all burned up, because they did not build with Christ. ^■ou remember about I'eter, after the gift of the Holy Spirit, how men were pricked m their hearts as they heard him. You remember about liarnabas. He was full of the Holy Spirit and people came, and many people believed in the Lord. It does not say that he was a great man. It does not say that he was an eloquent speaker or told the story in a wonderful way, but many people were added unto the Lord. " Hk saw the people and had compassion on them." He was responsive to every one who needed Him, neve spelling any— not even condemning the sinful woman, who was brought to Him, and, when the leper came, " He reached out his hand and touched him," and the woman, who touched the hem of His gar- ment, received instant cure. I think that we, as Christian workers, have to learn this bles.sed lesson. We are called to be responsive to the world's great need. It is all around us, hearts that are aching, people that are oppressed, captives that are bound, and you and ? want to keep our spirit ears open not only toward God but toward man that we may hear this call and be responsive to it. Said a Christian worker to me, " It seems to me we have got to learn to love the un- lovely." You and I cannot do it of ourselves. I give you one word which explains how we are to get that love, " I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and 1 in them." Dear friends, it is not our love that is going to reach out but Christ in us. Does somebody say, " I would like to follow such a model as that." I am not asking you to do that. I want you to look at Him and be sure that if you are going to use this life for the Lord Jesus CJhrist, He must live in you. It is Christ that is going to speak out through your voice and in the grasp of your hand and in the touch that you give. I remember a little lesson, which came to me. I stood in the old cathedral in Antwerp and, as I watched the artists as they came in and looked at Reuben's matchless picture, I noticed how they sat down and became quiet before it and how they folded up their arms and did not begin to paint right away but studied the picture. Then, I noted more than one man as he took his brush did not look at his hand, but kept his eyes on the picture and the hand began to move as he looked upon the face of Christ. Friends, we want to get such a look into the face of Christ.— J/rf. /. K. Barney, pages 67, 68, 69, 70. EVERY CHRISTIAN AT WORK. You want to know the secret of success ? It is all in your being like Jesuis Christ, in this single respect — " The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." How com- pletely we have turned that about in these days ! I think I do not exaggerate, when I say that the chief end of the Nineteenth Century Christian is to get the best pew in the church, hear the best preacher that money can procure, listen to the f nest music that can be had, and so be ministered unto and comforted and made happy. ^•SSEJ" "■ "'"^^■'' ' ''•"«*<&'•' fl IS t>l l8 I'KRSONAI. LHRISTIAN WORK. How much of latter-day 8elfiHhnc!i!« has been crystalized iit one of our prov- erbs, " lAwk out for numbtr one." Oh, how often it is repeated ! Is not the ver)' pith and marrow and foundation of the (iospcl in thi.s rather, " Look out for number two ? " The law said, " Thou shait love thy neighbor as thyself." But the (lospel goes deeper than that, "Thou shall love thy neighbor better than thyself." I.(Kik out for number two, and let number one take care of himself. One of the greatest philanthropists who ever lived, when asked by a serious minded brother, " How about your soul } " .said, " I have lieen so absorbed hi the cause of these ptx»r slaves that 1 have not tiiought of my own soul." Yet. how his soul flourished, when he forgot number one and looked out for numt)er two ! Take this again : " /'a iiol hornm' trouhli." O Christian friends, if there is one thing you ought to do from January to December, it is- to borrow trouble. Horrow all you can get ; borrow your neighbor's poverty ; borrow your neigh- bor's tears ; borrow your neighbor's sin ; borrow your neighbor's shame — all you can get. Alas for the Christian, who never lends or borrows in this worKI's market of misery ! I pity him. These are just illustrations of how we have turned things about. Now si;;>- pose we just reverse all this, and every one of us make it read, " Not to be minis- tered unto, but to minister," and give ourselves a ransom for many, pouring out our treasure, pouring out our lives and giving ourselves from morning to night to lift up sorrowing and perishing and dying humanity ; and 1 assure you our churches will be full for the simple reason that Jesus Christ and Him crucified has got inside of Christian men, where the first person singular has no long been ruling. The question for you, Christian, is this, " What think ye of man ? " It is written, that a man shall be more precious than fine gold, than the golden wedge of Ophir. How precious ? Precious as gold to be put in thy coffers .' Is that what you want him for ? Or is it this way, that man is more precious than gold, hccaase you believe that you can bring him into the mint of regeneration and !iave him stamped and put into circulation? That is what we want, and that IS why men should be more precious than gold. Did you not ever think at this point of the contrast between Satan and Jesus Christ. When Satan met Jesus Christ in that temptation which was typical, that temptation which foreshadowed the age-long temptation of the church, he said, " Command that these stones be made bread " — material things turned into means of gratifying our senses, the lust of the eyes, the lujt of the flesh, the pride of life. Look upon men as so many stones that you may turn to gold and put into your cofTers ; look upon men as grain that may be ground up and turned into food for you to feed yourselves upon. Jesus Christ on the contrary sa>s. " God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham ; " Yes, they are stones, but bring them to me, and they shall be fashioned into comer-stones polished after the similitude of a palace. Yes, they are stones, but bring them to me, and, in the hands of the divine lapi- dary, they shall be made fit to be worn in the breastplate of the great High-priest. Stones there are in the quarrv' ; they are dark and uncouth and shapeless. Yes, but bring them to me and they shall be living stones, " builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit." !' KVEKV LHKISTiAN AT WORK. of our prov- h not the Look out for >'self." Hut bctttr than : of himself, y a serious absorbed in loul." Yet. for number ids, if there ow trouble, •our neijfh- iie— all you his world's Now si;;)- o be minis- louring out ig to nijfht re you our 11 crucified as no lonjf 1?" It is len wedge ? Is that ious than feneration ivant, and and Jesus oical, that he said, ned into flesh, the gold and id turned raise up md they a palace, ine lapi- h-priest. 5. Yes, ler for a »» \ " And when they had found him, they said unto him. All men seek for thee. And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also, for therefore came I forth." Now, my brethren, I have to say that I do not know a passage in all Scripture in which the utter indifference of Jesus Christ to popularity is more distinctly brought out than in this. When they said. " All men seek for thee," why did not He answer, " Let them come. Uuild me a tabernacle, which shall !leM*jM^ 20 FKKtiONAI. CHKIHTIAN WDKK. 1; . "If i i!' t r ;;!. I what the next villaRC is (or you. It is your kitchen, ( Applause. | You will start on your missionary tour, I trust, to-morrow, dctrrminecl to olwy the great command to preach the ("lospel to the ends of the earth, and tlic lirst station you will come to is your kitchen. Have you prayed for your ccKik and tried to bring her to Jesus Christ ? I tell you if everybody in New Kngiand had l)een doing it, the foundations of superstition would have been undermined. (Ih, have you gone there ,' That is the next village to you. Have you prayed ? Have you carried the Hible ? Have you been anxious and earnest to bring that soul to Christ ? If you have. Gwl will have blessed you. If you have, you will not simply have won a soul, but perhaps have found an evangelist, who will take up the (lospel and preach the Oospel to the neighbors. I wish I had time to tell you about one. Christian Eddy. She was a cook, but she did not seek to get out of her position, when she found Christ, Let us learr from her to be humble. She just staid in her kitchen and became an evangelist to the whole community where she lived. That is why in a changed heart " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; ' Who sweeps a room as by thy laws Makes that and th' action fine." What is your next door neighbor, O Christian merchant .' What is the next village for you ? I am perfectly clear what it is. It is your salesroom where your clerks, are, the attics and cellars where your porters are. Have you been there with the Gospel ? I lay that on your heart. I have had many a man come to m^and say, " Well, if there is anything in it, I think my employer, who is a deacon in the church, would not have lived all these years and never once hat^e urged me to become a Christian." In a store I have had that said to me many a time. Do you say that would be a very unusual thing for a busi- ness man to do ? Did you ever hear of Samuel Budgett, an unusual merchant, who did a very unusual thing ? When he began it, they said he was the most eccentric man in all the country. Eccentric means out of centre. Now if you make self the centre, they wont regard you as eccentric, but, if you make God the centre you will be eccentric, because you are out of centre with the world and in centre with God. That was the way with Samuel Budgett. They said he was eccentric. What did he do .' At twelve o'clock business stopped. All the clerks and employees poured into a room which he had fitted uo for this pur- pose. He read a passage of Scripture and prayed for his workmen. That is the singular thing he did. What was the result ? The result was that one after another was brought into such relation to that man that they were no longer workmen, and he could say, " Henceforth I call you not servants ; « * but I have called you friends." They bec?me his friends in the Lord, and that whole estab- lishment became so compact in the fellowship of the Gospel as to move as one man in the interest of their employer. Samuel Budgett, because he was not ashamed to own Jesus Christ, became not only an eminent Christian but a most successful merchant. Go into the next village and preach the Gospel. There, O merchant, that is your village. Of course I could carry this out endlessly. You can find your work to-morrow, if you are willing to do exactly what the Scripture says, " Be instant in season, out of season." " Be instant in sea- e.| You will bey the great St station you tried to briim; )ccn doing it, ave you gone e you carried ;o Christ? !f simply have ip the (lospri ell you about ;et out of her »le. She just ity where she What is the ur salesroom :. Have you had many a ny employer, irs and never 1 that said to g for a busi- al merchant, vas the most Now if you u make God th the world They said topped. All for this pur- :n. That is lat one after :re no longer » but I have kvhole estab- move as one he was not 1 but a most pel. There, idlessly. ;xactly what stant in sea- ONK WHO WAS SAVKt). |KI Hon, out of season " means be unseastonably in season, make an opportunity out of an inopportune occasion. If you have that .npirit you will find work anywtiere, no matter what it is. In 1876 there was an inquiry meeting in our church, during Mr, Moody's meetings in Boston. The church was filled with inquirtu, and he sent me around to find workers to help. I came upon a woman with a baby. She \\as anxious to find Christ, for when I approached her and asked if sh-: 'vanted to lie saved, she said, " That is what 1 came here for." I came to a gentleman sitting on the front seat, a fine looking man, who was from Hartford, by the way, and I said, " Are you a Christian ? " " Yes sir." I said, " I want you to go over there and talk to an inquirer. " He said, " 1 never talked tu an inquirer." " Hut you are a Christian ? " " Yes." " Here is a wom!»n just ready to be led to Christ." " Excuse me. I should not know what to say to her." \Vell, because I could not get him to go, I went over and sat down beside the woman. Hut the baby was so restless that she could not give me her atten- tion. This man kept uatching us and .saw the situation. Hy and by he crept softly down and gave the baby some candy and took her in his arms and carried her to the other side of the church and held her for an hour, while I led the woman to Christ. | Applause. | He found that, if he could not lead a soul to Christ, he could hold the baby, while some one else did. | Laughter and applause. ] I think a special blessing rested upon that work, for not only was the mother saved, but that little girl came to Christ, when she was twelve years old, and 1 haven't a more aggressive Christian in my church than that baby has grown to be. What we must have is laymen in the church, who know how to preach the Gospel and present Jesus Christ simply, to go into the next villages. Do you say, " We want more power ? " Yes, but we must use the power we have. In my early ministry I used to pray much that the Lord would send down the Holy Ghost. It was the greatest revelation, when I discovered that I need not pray that He would send down the Holy (ihost for the Holy Ghost is here. And what we want to do is get into co-operation with Him. We have been trying, straining and reaching out to get the Holy Ghost not knowing that He is here. ' Remember it. is written, " Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." What we want is to lean upon the power of the Spirit.— /?«'. A. J. Gordon, D. D., pages 74-79. ONE WHO WAS SAVED. Canal Street is at the head of Lake Erie, and we get all those boatmen. You do not have to go to Japan to find a heathen. The other night, when I was just closing up the mission, and there was no one there with me but the janitor, a handsome looking young man came in and said, " What is the matter here ? " The room used to be a saloon, as Mr. Collins said, and we have been so poor that we haven't got a sign out even, and he thought it still a saloon. I said, " Come in and I will tell you about it." He came in and sat down, and I said, " This is a mission." He said, I have always kept clear of missions before ; never got ►,»»«■ .1 ' ! it 'I ' 'hi * : ■:''; m i;!i!')! 22 PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK. inside of one." I asked him if he did not want to be a Christian. He said, " Why ! Are you a Christian ? " I said, " Yes." He said, " I never saw but one before. She was a cook on one of our boats and she said she was a Christian, but you don't look like her." [Laughter.] I asked him if he was happy, " Do you mean the way a fellow fef^ls when he is drunk ? " [Laughter] Well, 1 thought I would get soniething into him, so I asked him if he knew about God. He said he knew that people believed that God had made the world, and that was as far as he knew. He had never heard our Saviour's name except in oaths. He did not know who our Saviour is. This was not pretense ; he did not know anything. This man's father and mother died, when he was only five years old. He was put into an orphan asylum, when he was six or seven. He ran away from there and went to sea. He had spent every winter up in the lumber camps in Michigan. You know what that is. That man knew nothing. I sat down there with my Bible and told him the simple story of Christ from beginning to end. He looked up at me and said, " I suppose every fellow knows this that has a father and mother. I never knew anything of this before." I told him that that was so, that, if people had Christian fathers and mothers, they were told about all this. It was not his fault that he did not know about it, that somebody ought to have told him about it. I acknowledged that to him. " Well," he said, " I haven't anybody that cares about me." I said, " You have found that you have a Father," and I read him the story of the Prodigal Son. He could not read for himself, only spell out a little. I said, "He is your Father, and if He is your Father, 1 am your sister and you are my brother, and the first thing we have got to do is to kneel down and tell Him about it." I never heard such a touching prayer in my life as that man'r. prayer, and, when he rose to his feet, he said, " This is the first time this man has spoken to the One who made him." That man went of! on a vessel the next day. We wrote to him up in Duiuth. He came back again in twenty days, the happiest man ! His face just beamed ! He went to Chicago, and one of Mr. Moody's workers helped him get work there. He is living a Christian life and has the happiest face, I think, I ever saw. Miss J. D. Cutter, page <)\. THE BACKSLIDER. I would like to say a word. Here is a story which has a moral to it. There was a man, who had been in a backslidden state for nearly twenty years. He thought that all that was expected of a servant of the Lord was to be a member of the church and serve on the music committee. [Laughter.] He thought that was all that was expected of a Christian. He got to thinking about it one time ?nd said to himself, " I remember the time when I enjoyed the presence of Christ. What was it that turned me aside ? " He remembered that he had the impres- sion that he ought to go and talk with a colored barber about his soul, but he did not want to go, and as he looked back he remembered that his religious and spiritual feelings began to decline when he refused to do this duty. On the night of which I speak, we had in connection with our churc!' \ tent meeting, and he was drawn in. The leader said to him, " Brother, are you a Christian } " He said, " I am." The leader said, " Look here ! cannot you come and talk to this man ? " He said he was not in any condition to talk to him. :^, mmii^mm TELLING THE STORY. 23 istian. He said, never saw but was a Christian, js happy. " Do ghter] Well, I new about God. world, and that except in oaths, lie did not know ly five years old. . He ran away e lumber camps ig. I sat down im beginning to ws this that has >ld him that that re told about all omebody ought :li," he said, " I i that you have uld not read for d if He is your ng we have got iuch a touching lis feet, he said, E him." That n Duiuth. He just beamed ! him get work nk, I ever saw. al to it. There nty years. He 3 be a member [e thought that out it one time ience of Christ, ad the impres- Dul, but he did s religious and • churc!' ■, tent :her, are you a inot you come o talk to him. The leader said, " Do you mean that you know nothing about the love of Christ ? Come along," and he brought him forward and set him right down by a colored man. [Laughter.] " Now," said he, " there is the man I want you to go to work with." The man said afterwards, " I did it, because I saw I must begin where I broke off. And as soon as I led him to Christ, I came right back into the joy of the Lord." — /tev. A.J. Gordon, D. D., page 105. TELLING THE STORY. I have been very m;ich impressed this morning with this — the power of telling the story. How the interest rises in this Convention, as we hear the story from the workers ! I was impressed with the story our sister from Buffalo told. The first time that man heard the Gospel, he was interested in it, and the reason so many be- come Gospel hardened is, because no one has the wisdom and grace to pick the fruit in its first interest and in its first impression. You know when iron Is heat- ed and gets cool it is harder than it was before. We need wisdom to pick the fruit when it is ripe and encouragement to tell the story to others again and ^ain. This hymn is based on a story told of a missionary who went into a hut, where a little boy was dying, and told him the story of Jesus. He had never iieard it before and grasped it with the simplicity of a child's faith and died in the Saviour's love. Singing " Tell It Again.' :, " Into a room where a little child lay : ^, ' Dying alone, at the close of the day, \ News of salvation we carried — said he . ^ ' Nobody ever has told it to me ! " ' Did he so love me, a poor little boy ? , , ; Send unto me the good tidings of joy ? ' Need I not perish ?— my hand will \\t. hold ? ' Nobody ever the story has told ! ' ' "• " Bending, we caught the last words of his breath. Just as he entered the valley of death ; ' God sent his Son ! — whosoever ! ' said he ; ' Then I am sure that he has sent for me ! ' " Smiling he said, as his last sigh was spent, ' I arri so glad that for me he has sent ! ' V/ hispered, while low sank the sun in the west : ' Lord, I believe ! tell it now to the rest I Chorus — " Tell it again ! tell it again ! Salvation's story repeat o'er and o'er. Till none can say of the children of men, ' Nobody ever has told me before.' " — Rev. F. M. Lamb, page 108. THE TEMPERANCE PLEDGE. When we first went to the Bowery Mission, we used to invite men to sign the pledge and give them a Testament with a temperance pledge for them to sign on '.he first page or fly leaf, but for the past six years I have not asked a I % )i I ' i, s \ 34 PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK. man to sign the pledge, although we still give the Testament. I believe that when I bring a soul facc-to-face with Christ, I have no business to put a pledge between them and draw his mind away from Him. If a sinner is led to look to and accept the Lord Jesus Christ, he will need no pledge ; and 1 have learned by experience that men who come in and take the pledge often talk more about it than they do about Jesus Christ. Very often wher I have asked a man, " Are you saved ? " He would answer, " 1 was in your mission last night or a month ago and took the pledge." So for this and other reasons, I never offer it, but try and point him to Jesus, who will save him and keep Ifim, not only from drink but from all sin. I would say this in closing, I consider that one of the best things the Bowery Mission has ever done is to present a Testament to every inquirer ; and in these last years we have given away over thirteen thousand. We give not a text or chapter merely, but the whole Gospel, with passages marked for them to carry away and study and profit by. As a rule I always mark and urge our workers to mark passages specially adapted to inquirers, for instance. " Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation ; but is passed from death unto life." and similar texts. Now there is one passage I always mark to give to a drinking man, v\z: II Peter i : i-io, the last clause of the tenth verse reading, " For if ye do these things, ye shall never fall." That is a wonderful strengthening promise for such a man, if he will just lay hold of it and rest upon it. A man came into our mission a while ago, a man who had lost everything through drink, and in talking with him I used that passage and it impressed him. A month or two after\vard he referred to it and said, " Every morning and every night I have read that. It is my encouragement for God says if I do that I shall nevci fall." His friends had all given him up and said they would do nothing more for him. But they have confidence in him now, for they believe he is saved. He is going to unite with Dr. Deems' church, and I think he is one of our most hopefui converts.— /. Ward Cht'Ms, pages 112, 113. I am so glad the Lord does not make us all work alike. I think the pledge a very important thing, if it goes in the name of Jesus Christ. I have a pledge, and I present it very often, and ask m^n to sign it. Now, it is true, if you call a .drunken man up to sign the pledge, he pats himself on the back and says, " 1 have signed the pledge. I am a man of my word, and I will keep it," He goes away and doesn't think of Jesus Christ. Men come to me sometimes and want to sign the pledge, and I call their atten- tion to the heading, " In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth " and say, " Do you mean that ? " Sometimes a man says, " I do not know anything about that, but I want to sign the pledge." " You do not need Jesus Christ ? " " No, I do not." •' You say you do not need Jesus Christ. Then go away and quit drink- ing without Him. You do not need a temperance pledge. But, if you need Jesus Christ, there is the pledge that goes in His name, and many a man has been saved by '\\.."^John G. Wooley, page 1 13. 1 14. '•*5k I believe that 5 to put a pledge is led to look to have learned by k more about it Kd a man, " Are ight or a month iver offer it, but only from drink ings the Bowety ■T ; and in these ve not a text or r them to carry ssages specially He that heareth :. and shall not d similar texts. 1, viz : II Peter hese things, ye such a tnan, if lost everything mpressed him. ling and every do that I shall lid do nothing 'e he is saved, e of our most nk the pledge lave a pledge, edge, he pats a man of my Jesus Christ. 11 their atten- nd say, " Do f about that, " No, I do 1 quit drink- , if you need y a man has THE CONVERSION OF CHILDREN. 35 THE CONVERSION OF CHILDREN. I most heartily believe in bringing the children to Christ. I remember talking to a poor lost woman in the city of Chicago. .She saiH, " You are the first per- son that ever asked me to come to Christ. I was a member of a Sunday school " —I will not tell what the church was—" six years, and nobodv ever spoke to me about coming to Christ." It seems to me that in taking these children in we want to be sure they have been born again, not " Do you love Jesus ? " or " Do you take Jesus Christ as your Saviour ? " but I believe 'a conviction of sin in children. The deepest conviction of sin I have ever seen has been in children. It is produced in the same way as Dr. (lordon said, by holding up the crucified Christ.— A'rt'. A'. A. Torrey,page 131. You all know that I love the children, and I am glad to hear this young Brother speak these words, yet I could see when he got through that there were many, who did not believe a word of it. They said. " He got them to stand up and say they loved Jesus, and, then, he took them into the church and did not examine them." Now it may be the way he put it made you say you did not believe in it. I believe that these children were converted, that he did a great deal more than he told. I believe he told them that they were sinners in God's sight, that they needed a change of heart. I believe that he told them the story of Christ's love. He might have emphasized the doctrine of substitution, the great central doctrine of God's work. I believe he explained to them how Christ died on Calvary's cross for us, how He was wounded for our transgres- sions, how He was bruised for our iniquities, how He was chastised, the jusi for the unjust. I believe that he believed and those Christians, who worked with him, believed the words of Jesus, " I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." — Rei>. E. Payson Hammond, page 1,31. , .a--j:-:%s ; I just want to call attention to the danger of resistance. You know the Lord said, " Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not." You know the position of those, who do not believe on the Friend of little children. Their infl-'ence is intensely evil on the minds and hearts of little children. Woe to them lat put stumbling blocks in the way of little children to keep them from coming to Jesus.— W. H. Howland, page 133. THREE WINNING FORCES. There is no use trying to work for God, unless we work in His Spirit's power. I sometimes fear that we workers mistake machinery for power. You will find that many and many a church, and many a mission, and many and many other Christian enterprises cost a great deal of money, but out of them there is but little harvest. Beloved, we ought to have means commensurate with the effort, but we ought to have grace for the effort as well. That is the great winning force in this old world that the Christian worker must have. I name it first and fore- most, and knowing of course that the Cross of Christ has been lifted in your lives. I say first and foremost, above every method and means, and above all machinery, the one thing that the worker needs in order to win in this world, the one thing that will never fail if he has it. is the power of the Holy Ghost. Oh. 5, ■A .i'l ,[!"^ M 36 PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK. that wfr might make more of the Spirit's power in our work, and in our lives! The second — let me name the third too — the second is the Word of God, and the third is great grace.— ^ tiO TO WORK. »7 id in our lives ! Vord of God, and KJns with delirium low one day from :ome. I had had sleep, and, when I ne to me and put from that hour I ke another drink." id in the morning t to my Brother's e to walk, I went postle to the out- F what Jesus had IS had saved him ince. I said. "O )ver, I raised my of drunkards. I I, and Jerry said, !ve God can help I, pity these poor t You help them she prayed she id me, and I was although I came any things in my ither things, but ■ me." He said, for yourself." I he answer came, 'hiskey. I have I lost, we do not B in Toronto on ind fellow. He else. He prays lat man that is » for us; Lord, me I am sure it for themselves lat he professes GO TO WORK. I most emphatically say that you want to pray for ASSURANCE if yoa haven't got it. it is a most unfortunate and miserable thing to go to an uncon- verted person a:.d begin to talk about Jesus and show by your halting heart and halting steps that you are not quite sure whether Jesus is to be depend- ed upon or not. But, if you know that Jesus is your Saviour, and, if He has got YOU saved, He will send you out with that blessed assurance that you can take to other people. When you start out in this work, let that be the first thing you make sure of. Now, when anybody is saved I want to see them at work. Some folks think you should coddle and tend them for a long time first. They say, " Let us teke this man who is converted, and we will train him. See, he is full of fire, and the love of Christ is constraining him. Now we will take him to church and put him in a pew and preach at him for a year or two, and, when we get him in good trim, then we will set him at work. " You find to your sorrow you cannot get any good work out of him. Bless you ! the man is all burned out by that time. What is the matter with the great majority of Christians ? They were not put right at work, and the result is they have lost their first fire and the con- straint of love and think that their business is to hear and pay the preacher. He is the man paid to do all the work, and human nature helps wonderfully towards this conclusion, ahd it doesn't take long lo train a new convert into this. That is the way the^majority of them are spoiled. There are thousands, yea, ten thousands spoiled Christians in the world to-day. They have been spoiled by coddling them and doubting them. The Moravians understand better how to manage. They give a new convert three days to rejoice and then set him at work. Why, some fellows think it is going to hurt the Lord's cause, if they let a man go to work as soon as he is converted, if he fails or falls. Hurt the Lord's cause ! Why, suppose he tumbles and tumbles, until he revolves like a jiggering wheel, what difference does it make to the Almighty's plans ! Do you suppose it is going to stop anybody from serving God ? Do you think it is going to stop the Gospel of Jesus Christ saving men ? Put them to work. They will do no harm. Let everyone who professes, conversion go to work and serve the Lord Jesus Christ. Let them try and see what they can do. " By their fruits ye shall know them." 1 tell you, when a man goes to work with the first love of God in his soul, he is full of fire. The love of Christ constrains him, urges him. It has got hold of him. He may be full of tares to be burned out, but the love of Christ is constraining him to work as the fire bums. There was a man down at the mission the other night, who got up in a timid way and said, " Three days ago I gave my heart to Christ." That night after we show-Christians had all gone home, that fellow goes out and catches a man and brings him in and gets him saved. That man was three days a Christian ; how many Christians is he worth that you know ? How many Christians have done as much ? I am not blaming you any more than I blame myself for doubting and questioning God's work and God's workmen. I tell you, when the fire is burning, when you have the love of God in your heart, go to work ! Go to work I Go TO DO God's WORK ! Ah, here is the first lesson a Christian worker has to have, and this is the lesson we have all got to learn if our work is to be a blessed II ^lilliwwiiiiilrt'iillOfilil' t^cti^ussi,ji.ntseuixs0tiif^ ^'%'^ . I'lr! JH m. i^iil ' HI i 1^ t '*i a8 PKRSONAI. CHRISTIAN WORK. ," things was for my own glory and not for Christ's glory. Itctook a long time and some tribulation for me to see this, and it greatly upset me, when I saw it. I found out at last that I was " His workmanship " and that it was not my busi- ness to work for my glory or care for anything except the work God had set before me and had prepared for me to do. Oh, I felt sad, when I looked back and saw how the prepared work had been neglected for vain service ! You want to ask yourselves whose glory you are working for, and what you are building for. Are you seeking to have men say, " That is good or splendid } " Are you turning around and watching for a nice thing to be said of your work, your sermons, your Bible talks, your sympathetic kindness } Bless you ! it is all of the flesh and pride of man. You haven't got the Spirit of working for God. There is no life in your work for God. While this is so, it is worthless, for it is your work And your own glory, and it is not God-prepared work for you. Glory to Christ ! Let us give our hearts to His work, for we can put our hearts into it with confidence, for there are no failures in His prepared work, and, when we begiM to work for His glory, we will see the difference in the power. The life in you springs to power, and you do the work God has got for you to do on this earth. First it is love, and then it is life and power. It is a new spirit. Who is it that is doing the work ? It is God and Christ doing the work by the agency of the Spirit down here through those who are willing to be used. They are the ones who are doing the work. Note the instruments. We are simply instruments of His workmanship to do the work He has prepared for us to do here, I like that pilgrim in the " Pilgrim's Progress," who doesn't worry about his work, but says, " Wherever I have seen the print of the Lord's shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to set my foot too. I love to search out the foot-marks and put my foot where I see the print of the Lord's foot." When you begin to understand the principle of the prepared work and the purity and holiness of everything that is to go into it, you get a sense of God ■ Km bii»^,iiriiiMfc" Itttook a long time set me, when I saw it. lat it was not my busi- the work God had set 1. when I looked back ■ain service ! ting for, and what you : is good or splendid } " be said of your work, > ? Bless you ! it is all it of working for God. it is worthless, for it is work for you. Glory 1 put our hearts into it I work, and, when we w power. The life in for you to do on this a new spirit. :hr!st doing the work ire willing to be used, instruments. We are He has prepared for )gress." who doesn't he print of the Lord's I love to search out Lord's foot." PREPARED work and 'U get a sense of God GO TO WORK. 29 and His work down here, and you get the power of God and believe that God will send means for His work, and things will look better and easier, and you can wait in faith for God's success and not throw down your tools at every disappointment. Suppose God threw down His tools, where would our work be? " Without me," says Jesus, " ye can do nothing." We are only instru- mental atoms in the marvellous work that is going to be done. Let it go on, and let us make sure that we are not trying to push our little work forward as one of the joists of God's work. Possess this little time, which is thirty, forty or sixty years, and then pass by into the fullness of time, and thus keep simply in God's prepared work. Let God use you. Let the great Holy Spirit of (iod teach you. Let Christ send His mighty love and power over you, into you. Mark you, so let God employ every moment of your time down here, that you may rejoice that Jesus lives in you, and, that as a conveyance you are being used in His life and work, and not working at poor, miserable, foolish plans and calling it God's work and having it burned up by and by. I want you to realize that. What do we need after this ? I am going to give you a qualification now that is hard to learn. It was a bitter thing for me to learn. I thought I was an earnest, practical Christian in those, my days of failure. I could talk with every- body and about everything, but, I tell you, you have got to have the power of God doing His work in your soul, before you can realize what God means you to do. He is going to burn up all self-confidence. If He is to set you apart for holy work and maKC you fit for it, you must be rid of the power of your old self. " There is a Tan who often stands, Btt ween me and Thy glory. His name is self, My carnal self, Self-seeking self. Stands twixt me and Th; glory. The human will of Christ went down. anA your will, your independent, separate will has got to go down, as Christ's will « ent down. If you have given up your will to God and had the battle over it. you have had such a fight as you will remember. You will never .'crget it. Christ had a battle, before His will went' down. If it was a battle for that holy Man, the holiest One of the holy ones to give up His will, how many thousand times harder would it be for such poor, weak, sinful creatures like yo\i and me to give up our wills and serve God, work for God, bless God and praise Him from our heart ! How impossible, except it were the doing of Christ !— IV. H. Howland, pages 209, 21 1, 212. 213. 214. HOW ^ ONE WAY. There is in my town a man, who loves young men and desires to bring them to the Lord Jesus Christ, and he has made something of a discovery. He has discovered that a great many people, who will not walk with you, will take a ride with you when you ask them, and he devotes his spare change to hiring a horse and buggy, and he drives along the street in the early evening and meets some young fellow, and says, " Look here, wont you* take a ride with me ? " The moon is just coming up, and the young man, who will not walk with Y :, gets into the carriage for a drive. o'jkju^j^r.itif .■■';■:« - ■ ^' ::7t 'il 'ii.'lt IN'ii 30 PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WURK. Often before these evening rides are over, through this consecrated Christian layman, the love of Jesus is poured into the ears of the young men. — /iev. H, N. Kinney, pages 278, 279. WILLING TO DO ANYTHING. For seven years 1 was one of those .stay-back, silent Christians — perhaps you may know what I mean by that— who profess to be Christians, but never say anything, but seven years a?o the Salvation Army came to Toronto, and there was a good deal said about it. We used to see them sometimes on the streets, and I made up my mind I would go and see what they were like. I walked two miles to see what they were like, and, when I go> there, my dear friends. I found that those dear people were very nice, and they were singing this little hymn. " I would follow Jesus anywhere, everywhere." As I stood there I wondered how it was I could not do that. I was a Christian. They were just getting ready to go out on the street-comer. They went out presently, and back they came again, and a lot of tramps and lots of other people camo-in with them. They came in singing, and I thought they were the happiest people I had ever met in my life, and I thought, if I could only be as happy as they, I would be willing to do anything. As I sat there listening to the testimonies of one and another as they told what the Lord had done tc 'em, through the Salvation Army being on the street-comers, I thought, *' Lord Jesus show me what is the matter, if there is anything I have got to give up. I want to be happy like these people. I would be willing to do anything." And right there He did fill me with Himself. Oh, how He did fill me ! and I was just as happy as they were. I went home and told my wife about it, and she said, " Dc you really mean it ? " I said, " Yes, it's grand, and. wife. I am going to be all for Jesus." '. commenced the following Wednesday. I went to church— we have some fouv or five hundred people in our church — to prayer-meeting, and as soon as D' . Thomas had read a chapter in the Bible and said a few words he threw op<^n the meeting. Now where the Spirit is, there is liberty. When he gave the inviution, in a flash I was on my feet. I do not know how I got there, but I hollered out right there, " Follow Jesus anywhere, everywhere. I will follow Jesus." They thought I had gone crazy sure. [Laughter.] They could not make it out. Before that they had never heard me speak in meeting. They were sure I had gone crazy. So after the meeting was over I got to talking with this one and that one, but they would not seem to have much to do with me. The next Wednesday night I went there. My wife didn't like it very well. She had heard some passing remarks and saw some laughing at me, but I said, " Never mind me. It is all for Jesus. ' If God be for us, who can be against us ? ' " From that time, dear friends, I got out into mission worit.— y^ C. Davis, pages 284. 285. THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER. Mr. Chairman. I am Cot going to speak so particulariy about my street work in Washington as I just want to give the people here an idea of the impor- tance of practical work in this very line. The world is sinking and God calls to ,."»>»• -*-• ^WB^SBmmmmm 1 isecrated Christian hristians— perfiaps ristians, but never le to Toronto, and sometimes on the they were lijce. I rot there, my dear they were singing ere." As I stood Christian. They vtnt. out presently, er people cam».in le happiest people hrppy as they, I :he testimonies of ' «m, through the Jesus show me 'P- I want to be And right there was just as happy he said, " Dc you >ing to be all for h— we have some f, and as soon as ' words he threw When he gave ' I got there, but i«. I will follow They could not meeting. They 1 got to talking much to do with dn't like it very ghing at me, but us, who can be ission work.—/. »bout my street » of the impor- nd God calls to OUTLINES or DOCTRINE ESSENTIAL FOR WORKERS. 3t US from the throne of His power to reach out the strong arm of our help to up- lift the distressed, the weak and the fallen, and that is one of the great mission!) of the true church of God, and so, when you all get as practical with your religion and use your carriages for Gospel purposes as gladly as you use them for polit- ical purposes, you will cha.se the devil to the hell where he belongs and uplift the world. The way you run the average church is like something I saw out in California, where I have been living. This is the way they run churches. I went out in the yard and saw a dead grasshopper, and it was moving. I said, "What in the woild is moving that grasshopper?" [Laughter.] I finally saw that it was a little tiny ant pulling that great grasshopper, and, as I looked, 1 discovered that there were three more ants that were not doing a thing. They were riding on the grasshopper. [Laughter.] That is about the way you run some of your churcnes. [Laughter.] You get a little bit of a poor preacher and make him pull the whole business and al! the church members do is to ride. [Laughter ] What God wants us to do is to start out for the uplifting of the distressed and ia}\ta.— Rev. John H. Hector, page 291. OUTLINES OF DOCTRINE ESSENTIAL FOR WORKERS. I know very well that a man's knowledge of truth may be very scanty and yet he be so full of love to lost men and so full of the Holy Ghost that he will be wonderfully useful in winning men to Christ. I know beside that, that some men are full of truth, wonderfully and deeply versed in the doctrines of God's Word, but they are so barren of love and so empty of the power of the Holy Ghost that they are good for nothing. I had rather have a man whose knowl- edge of the truth was meagre, but whose knowledge was quickened and empow- mA by the Hdy Ghost than to have a man, who had a great knowledge of truth but knew nothing of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and yet, for all that, friends, there are certain great truths, which every man who conducts a mission, every man who assumes in any sense to be a leader in Christian work, ought to be settled upon. The first doctrine that every teacher and leader should be settled upori, is that of the absolute and infallible authority of the Bible, the absolute and infallible authority of the Bible from the first chapter of Genesis to the last chapter of Revelation. Second; the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth. In Mark xiv : 61-62, the Saviour Himself affirmed under oath that He was the Son of God. Third ; that the death of Jesus Christ is a substitution for the punishment of man's sin that met all the claims of God and His law again&t the sinner. Fourth ; the utter ruin of human nature by sin, and consequent necessity 01 the new birth as the condition of admissk>n to the Kingdom of God. Fifth ; that .he Holy Spirit, a living, divine person is the author of this new nature, and that the Word of God is the seed that the Spirit of God drops into the soul and invigorates, out of which the new life springs. Sixth ; that salvation is a free gift, to be obtained entirely, solely by faith. Seventh ; that the faith that saves is one of four things ; first, simply the belief that Jesus can and will save you,-Luke vii : 50, " And he se:d unto the woman. Thy faith hath saved thee ; go in peace," and Mark x : 52, " And Jesus .,»•" r:-'Vf3'j;a^*?.''.-T ■ ■ • I -r-.riM— ■i----^-^--^-'-^-" -.,. Fill wm'^ ' '='^ •?"• , 33 fEKSDNAI. C'HKISTIAN WORK. said unto him, (io thy way ; thy faith hath made thee whole." Now what was the faith that that woman had ? She did not know much theology, but »\ z believed that Jesus could and would forgive her sins. In Mark x : 53, what was the faith of Uartimeus ? He believed that Jesus could and would restore his sight ; or second, it is simply receiving Christ,-" But as many as reciived him, to them gave he power to become the sons cf God, even to them that believe on his name; or third, committing all to Christ, II Tim. i:i2, " I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that h-; is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day ; " or fourth, it is simply the expect- ant looking unto Christ for salvation,— John iii .14, " And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up." In a word, it is depending solely upon Christ to save from the guilt, power and consequences of sin. Eighth ; the absolute necessity of open confession of Christ. Ninth; Titus ii: 11-14, Titus iii: 8 — the necessity that they which have believed be careful to maintain good works. While we insist, on the one hand, thai men are saved fy simply believing, we must just as strenuously insist, on the other hand, that they are saved /o holy living. That is a doctrine that very much needs emphasizing to-day in our mission and church work. Saved men must lead separated lives. We must teach separation from the world— II Cor. vi : 19, 18. Tenth — Now I want you to listen to this, because it is probably the first point on which I differ from my brethren — the perpetual validity and necessity of the sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper. There is one point I omitted. It was right after that point I made about the absolute and infallible authority of the Word of God, and it is this — it is not very different and yet it is different — the importance of daily, regular study of the Word of God. Now, the last point, friends, and in some respects the most important point. The final doctrine, which is essential, is the absolute necessity of the baptism of the Holy Ghost as a preparation for service. I want to repeat thai, the absolute necessity of the baptism of the Holy Ghost as a preparation for service. Luke xxiv : 49 — Christ is just on the point of ascension. He has given the great com- mission. He has told them to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. Now, what does He say ? — " And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you ; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endwe teacher. They had learned the miracles. They in the sepulcher. ight before their IN SEASON. S3 eyes. Now, these things they had seen were Gospel facts, not theories. The Ciospel they had to preach was just what they had seen. They knew it. They had seen it. Now watch these men. Though they had nothing to do, but to testify to the things they had heard with their own ears and seen with their own eyes, they were not allowed to stir one step, until they were endued with the Holy Cihost, and, though the whole world was perishing for the knowledge they had received through personal observation, they waited day after day, day after day, for ten long days till the Spirit of God came upon them. My point is this, if men, who had been to school -to Jesus Christ, who had been with Him for three long years, had heard the truth they were to teach from His own lips, h'ld been eye witnesses of His miracles. His death. His resurrection and His ascension, if they were not allowed to teach and preach, until they knew that the Spirit of Ciod had come upon them, what presumption it is in us to do it ! It is to my mind the most audacious thing a man can do to-day. when even Jesus Christ Himself did not enter upon His public ministry until He was anointed " with the Holy Ghost and with power " (Acts x : 38). If Jesus did not do it, and. if the Apostles, who were eye-witnesses — if they were not allowed to preach, until they were conscious of the anointing of the Holy Spirit, what awful presumption, blasphemy, I had almost said, to try to take the place of leader or do any work for Christ till we know we have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost ! Are there any Christian workers here, who, if they were to express their honest thought to-night, would have to say, " The baptism of the Holy Ghost, what is it ? " Don't you know my brother ? Don't you know my sister ? If you do not — I say it thoughtfully ; I do not say it on the impulse of the mo- ment ; I have thought over for houi-s what I anj going to say to you— don't, don't undertake to do anything in the service of Christ, until you hav« gone and in (}od's way sought the baptism of the Holy Ghost and know you have got it. " Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is rome upon you." — /tei'. R. A. Torrey, pages 292-300. There is something, Brother Torrey, I think on account of your voice giving out that you omitted, in connection with the point on the absolute anthority of the inspired Word, and that is the necessity of preaching the Word and nothing but the Word. — Col. George R. Clarke, page 300. Amen. There is another point which I omitted, and which I will give you now, the doctrine of an endless conscious torment of those, who in this life reject Jesus Christ as Saviour. I will give you the texts on it : John viii : 21-24 ; Rev. xx: 15; Rev. xxi: 8; Rev. xiv:9-ti. The thirteenth chapter of Revelation, eighth verse, tells you about those whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life. John iii : 36, " He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life : and he that bco~ . . .iOt on the Son shall not see life : but the wrath of God abideth on him. — Rev. R. A. Torrey, page yao. IN SEASON. Now, can anything be done as a preventative to lessen the great army that is drifting down this swift current into the whirlpool of vice and sin ? Yes ; our own hearts, filled with mere of the Master's love, will constrain us to give a kind word of warning to the erring, or extend a hand of welcome to the stranger just -aim ::n mi' |l||; "iJ, i 34 I'KKSONAI. CHKISTIAN WORK. in the time, when it might turn the .ide of his whole life. Hundreds of young men have N ^s t MA m 0imm » iiim -.■'•MimUm Stuimitt^'' / •A I i) PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK. There is one line of work that 1 forgot to mention and that is our cottage meetings, of which we maice a great deal. As these ladies go from house to house— the ladies do most of the visiting— they are instructed to find a place, where we can have a cottage meeting. At one of the cottage meetings we had fifty persons present. We had eight saloon keepers in one of the cottage meet- ings. That is accounted for partly by the fact that we have a young man, who sold out a good business in Brooklyn and came to our school, and who has a great gift in getting people into cottage meetings. He will come in with two people, and pretty soon he will come in with two more and in a little while with five, perhaps. I think he got in the eight saloon keepers. He has the gift of getting into the saloons. That is another branch of our work. One of the men has a little organ, and he steps into a saloon and plays for the men and says, " Have you any objection to my singing a song ? " The men usually want him to sing, and he always sings the Gospel songs, and. when he gets through sing- ing, he preaches ihe Gospel in the saloon. We have a number, who do this kind of work. I want to say that in almost every instance they have been very kindly received by the bar-keepers. One bar-keeper stood and talked with one of our workers an hour about his personal salvation. In one saloon there were only three persons, the Mioon keeper, his wife and a policeman. All three of them were deeply interested, and, when he was through, the policeman stood and talked for an hour or more about his salvation. —^^. /f, A. Torrey, pages 376, 377- A DISCUSSION. Ques. How is a man to succeed in the Christian life ? Rev. R. A. Torrey. I can give you six rules by which he can succeed. First, start right by receiving Christ, Jno. i : 12 ; second, confess Christ every charce he gets. Matt. X : 32, 33 ; third, read his Bible every day, I Peter ii : i, 2 ; fourth, be much in prayer, Luke xxii : 40— pray regularly and pray every time he is tempted —fifth, put iway every known sin out of his life, Isa. Iv : 7, I Jno. i : 7 ; sixth, go to work. Matt, xxv : 14-29. You have got to keep them at work to keep them sxfe, I wont say saved, because I believe if a man is once saved, he is saved foievT. Ques, Mr. Torrey, I would like to ask a question. It has become very fashionable in mission meetings, after the address is over, to simply ask those who want to be prayed for to stand up. Now is not the object of our preaching the bringing of men to trust in Christ ? Mr. Torrey. Yes sir. ^-'a :^-cMfr ■. :- - Ques. And if I simply ask men to stand up and be prayed for, I fall short of the object I ought to have in view ? Mr. Torrey. Yes sir. H. J. Pierson. Mr. Spurgeon once said a lady came to hiin and said she had been setJcing the Lord for some time, and she said, " I want you to pray for me." He said, " Madam, I will not." And then he pointed her to Christ, and presently she said, "Mr. Spurgeon. I will accept Christ." " Now," he said. " I will pray with you." Mr. Torrey. I am glad Mi. Pierson brought that out. I tell you, friends. 1, M ^'Vxiii iiim II ; i'imi»*ii.' >iri II HI « iiMiniifJaiilirtiiiiwiilifflMiaiBiiiiiiiwii A DISCUSSION. kt is our cottage > from house to to find a place, leetings we had e cottage meet- oung man, who and who has a >me in with two little while with has the gift of One of the men men and says, iually want him s through sing- er, who do this have been very talked with one loon there were 1. All three of ;man stood and rey, pages 376, succeed. First, :very charce he , 2 ; fourth, be 5 he is tempted i : 7 ; sixth, go to keep them ;d, he is saved s become very mply ask those our preaching for, I fall short n and said she ou to pray for to Christ, and ir," he said, " I U you, friends. 37 we want to leave upon ..^e minds of the persons we are talking with the fact that they are lost, if they stop short of accepting Christ. You do not want to ease a man's conscience. Standing up for prayer eases a man's conscience. Ques. Do you instruct your workers to expect immediate conversions? Mr. Torrey. Yes, but I will say, too, that oftentimes the most satisfactory con- verts are those you have dealt with night after night. I instruct my workers, if they get hold of a man to-night, and do not succeed in bringing him to Christ, instead of taking a new man, to keep at that one until he is saved. Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, Jr. You speak of a person being hopefully con- verted, but I am afraid a great many people here to-night, perhaps some, who are not converted, do not know what it means. Will you kindly tell us in a word what it means .' Mr. Torrey. A converted man or a regenerated man is one, who has seen himself as a lost sinner and who has taken Christ as an all sufficient Saviour and confesses Him openly before the world. " With the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." " Why do you believe you are saved ? " I ask one who says he is saved. " W ell, I feel so." " Can you prove it to me from the Word of God ? Show me something in the Word of God that you can put your finger on." " I know," he says, " from that passage that I am a saved man." The only assurance that amounts to anything is the assurance that has its foundation on God's Word. On top of that is the witness of the Holy Ghost. Ques. What if he lacks the assurance of the Word, but believes he is saved ? Mr. Torrey. If a man says he is converted, he must give evidence from the Scriptures to that effect, before he is a satisfactory case. Ques. Do you keep him at it till he finds it ? Mr. Torrey. I would show it to him. For example, " Everyone that believeth is justified from all things." Now 1 explain that, what " believing " is, and I put it to him cleariy. " Do you believe on Christ ? Have you received Christ } " " Yes." " Well then, what are you ? " " Why, I don't knov/. I hope to be saved." " ' Every one that be ievcth is justified,' do you believe .'" " Yes." " What is the person that believes ?' " Justified." " What are you ? " " Well, I hope to be saved sometime." " He ' ';hat believeth is justified from all things,' " I repeat. " Do you believe ? What are you } " '• Justified from all things," he says finally. We keep at it till it comes out with the right ring. I use that text (Acts xiii : 39) a great deal. I also use John iii : 36. Rev C. S. Mills. Mr. Chairman, all of us, who are in Christian work, seek- ing to lead men to Christ, find often a great perplexity in the relation between the decision of the soul and the agency of the Holy Spirit. I would like to have you explain a little more fully. Mr. Torrey. I am very glad you have asked that question, because a great many people try to do the work of the Holy Spirit, and I emphasize that a great deal. It is the work of the Holy Spirit to regenerate, and all a man has to do with his regeneration is this. The Spirit of God comes to the man to whom the Gospel is preached and presents C.rist to him. If a man yields to the Spirit of God and accepts Christ, he is regenerated. All a man has to do with his re- -I mim*imimimi>i>M v i* i»»^ ^- — ..s^", 3* PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK, generation is to let the Spirit of God work. Now, through what does the Spirit of God work ? Through the Word, James i : i8,-"Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his crea- tures." Our part in regeneration is to give the Word in the power of the Spirit, and the Holy Spirit's part is to invigorate the Word, give it life, and the man's part is to yield ; that is all. Ques. I would like to ask if you believe a Christian worker can accomplish anything, unless Christ is incarnated in him ? Mr. Torrey. He is not a Christian worker, but God does sometimes use un- converted instrumentalities. ' have known of God wonderfully using men, who had not been converted and were living in sin, as came out afterwards. The first thing we insist upon is the personal religious life of our students (Bible In- stitute, Chicago). I want to say right here, suggested by this, we found, about two weeks ago, that we were not getting converts as we used to, and so I said, " We will stop all our lectures and get down before God and pray." We gave up our lectures for the day and met in prayer. That night the students, of their own accord, came together and lingered till past midnight in prayer for the Spirit of God to come down upon us, and from that day to this, on the street, in the saloons and everywhere we have gone in the pow: r of the Holy Ghost. Wf^ insist on the baptism of the Holy Spirit more than .anything else next to their own personal life. Ques. How do you define to your students the enduement of power ? Mr. Torrey. I wish I had time to lecture on that an hour. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of God coming upon a man and taking possession of his faculties and imparting to him gifts, not naturally his own, but which fit him for the work to which God has called him. How secured ? Isa. xliv : 3 Acts ii : 38-39, Acts v : ji. Gal. iii : 14, Luke xi : 13, Luke xxiv : 49. Que^. Does the question of repentance come up in your mission meetings ? Mr. Torrey. Yes, it does. It comes up in the meeting and in talking with men. I teach them just exactly what repentance is. Repentance is turning from sin with all your heart and turning to God. We dwell on the positive necessity of turning to God and depending on Christ. A delegate. You said last night, that a man must not only have the bap- tism of the Holy Spirit, but must know that he has it. Christ said, " Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with the power from on Ijigh." You said, that, if it was presumption for the Disciples to go out wiih.;M '\i\ power, it would be more presumptious for us to go out without it o m ',-' m Christ. How can we know that we have this power ? Mr. Torrey. I do not know as I can do better than to give my own experience. I came to a place in my ministry where I was led to say — i said it to one person, but mostly to myself — that I would never go into my pulpit to preach till I knew I had been baptized with the Holy Spirit, or till God said, " Go." I gave myself up to prayer and waited on God, having first looked into my life to see if there was anything not pleasing to God (in the line of what the pastor of this church said in his opening address). All my time was spent in looking to God m prayer. I do not know how many days it was, but I did not pass a Sunday in the meantime. I did not preach as many times a week as I do KROM THE QUESTION BOX. 39 it does the Spirit will he brought Fruits of his crea- ver of the Spirit, e, and the man's r can accomplish >metimes use un- using men. who ifterwards. The idents (Bible In- we found, about o, and so I said, »ray." We gave students, of their 1 prayer for the on the street, in loly Ghost. W'^ :lse next to their of power ? , The baptism of aking possession vn, but which fit d ? Isa. xliv : 3 49- ission meetings ? i in talking with :ance is turning on the positive ly have the bap- lid, " Tarry ye in on big-h." You hi)'.:£ wo;-' lii'j power, (or Christ. > give my own to say — i said it ito my pulpit to or till God said, ing first looked the line of what me was spent in as, but I did not s a week as I do now. I was pastor of a church in Minneapolis. I had it all figured out how it was coming. I had the electric shocks and all those things figured out. At last, in a very unexpected way, quietly, but very unmistakably, the assurance crept into my soul, " It is yours, go." I went, and God blessed me. I would say that since that time I have felt the " electric shocks." I have known what it was to have the Spirit of God come upon me since that time, and I could do nothing but lie on the floor and shout, " Glory to (iod." But the baptism of the Spirit was just as real in the more quiet experience. It is impossible to tell just how the blessing will come. Not, probably, in the way you expect. But you will know it when it comes. Ques. Was it knowledge through feeling or through faith in the Word of God.> Mr. Torrey. I think the best promise to get hold of in the matter is I John v : 14-15 — "If we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us : and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him." We know that the gift of the Holy Spirit is "according to his will." Luke xi : 13, tells us that. We can know then that " we have the petitions which we have asked of him." The assurance has often come to me along the line of this promise. The Spirit has made this promise real in my experience. I would be glad to talk about this all night, but the time is up, and it would not be fair to keep you any longer. — Pages 378-382. ,J FROM THE QUESTION BOX. Ques. What books will help in leading children to Christ } Mr. Ham- mond please answer. Ans. (Rev. E. P. Hammond). Years ago I read with great profit Dr. John Todd's works on the conversion of children. I understand that question to mean, what books will help Christians in leading children to Christ ? I did not suppose I would be asked to answer this question, but my answer would be a book called the "Conversion of Children" It has been translated into many languages and has gone all over the world. I know that God has blessed that little book. I hope you will excuse me for speaking of it, for I wrote it. I have given away several thousands of copies, and, if there are any here to-day, who cannot buy the book, I .shall be happy to give it to them. There are many other books, but the book of all is the Bible. Chairman. The book that has helped me more than any other ejcept the Bible is Mr. Hammond's book. Ques. How can the church be organized for personal work .' Ans. (ReV. Graham Taylor). It has got to grow. It cannot be organized on paper. You have got to see a need, and get one person and then another person, and let the need grow. The moment you begin and make your organization an iron-mould for life to go into, you have done the very thing you did not want to do. Life must create its own organization. Now give it free scope and do not say, " You have always got to work in the same way." It is necessary to keep the nfeed at the end and the means mid-way. • Ques. How can one best get ? love for soul-saving ? Col. Clarke please answer. Ans. (Col. Clarke), At the foot of the cross. [Applause.] • Ques. Does Mr. Torrey think a conscious descent of the Holy Spirit WW Ii fU B U P WU fJ****- ♦0 PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK. necessary for workers ? Does He not prove His presence sometimes without such manifest coming ? Ans. (Mr. Torrey). I am not sure that I know what is meant by a conscious descent of the Holy Spirit, but I will reiterate what I said last night. I believe that a man should know that he has the baptism of the Holy Spirit, before he dares to underuke Christian work. Now the next question will follow right on this one. Ques. Mr. Torrey said a worker must wait till filled with the Holy Spirit How does he know he is filled ready to sUrt work ? Ans. (Mr. Torrey). I cannot tell you how you will know, but 1 can tell you that^ow will know, and the probability is you will have the piocess all staked out for yourselves, and the overwhelming probability is that it wont come that way at all, but as you wait before the Lord, first having done what Mr. Kittredge Wheeler said must be done, first t>eing in the moral attitude to receive the Holy Spirit, being ready, anxious and willing that the Holy Spirit should use you anywhere. We are not willing that the Holy Spirit should do what He will with us. When you are in that attitude, and waiting on God, the Spirit of God will come ar>d make His presence known. I cannoc tell you how He will make it known. Very likely there will be no physical manifestation, but you will know when the Spirit is there. Ques. Before one can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and power from on high, is there a self-emptying, w.iich is the person's own work, or will God, by His baptism, push out self, if that is the man's true desire ? Col. Clarke, answer that iquestion. Ans. (Col. Clarke). I tell you, you never will be empty of self-will till you ask God to empty you. I know that from personal experi- ence. God has got to lay down your will for you. You have got to ask Him to empty you of yourself, self-will, conceit, and everything else. Then ihe Holy Spirit is just pressing to come in and will come in. God has got to do the emptying, but the emptying is net the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The filling after the emptying is the baptism. Ques. Will you Christian workers please tell me how to be more interested in reading the Bible, and how to understand it better } Please pray for us, tliat we may love to read and understand it as you all seem to. Ans. (Mr. Torrey). Yes. I do not make this as a personal allusion. It may not apply to the case. The first thing I would say, would be this, be born again. The firs', thing a Kve baby does is to cry for milk. The first thing a new born soul wants vj some- thing to eat, and there is just one thing that satisfies it, and that is che Word of God. Be sure you are born again. The hunger for God's Word is one of the proofs. Then study it. Mind what I say ; I do not say read it. I mean, get right down and pray over it and take a single verse and turn it over and over again, and you will learn to love it. It is our superficial reading that makes our reading so stupid and dull. It is when we meditate on the Word that we enjoy k. The more you read, the more you will love it. I used to love my Bible when I was first converted. I do not know as 1 ever enjoyed reading my Bible so much as I did last night, when I went home from the meeting here. Ques. What simple and feasible plan for enlisting in Christian work the members of a country church living in dis4ricts.> Ans. You will find the answer in the repoi . of Rev. H. L. Hutchins. MY FOOLISH MAN. les without know what rate what I baptism of w the next rloly Spirit rorrey). I ' know, and res, and the IS you wait tid must be leing ready. We are not I you are in 3 make His Very likely he Spirit is power from >r will God, Zol. Clarke, ill be empty )nal experi- ask Him to E.n the Holy to do the The filling •e interested for us, tliat \x. Torrey). to the case, firs^ thing a nts i«j some- is the Word rd is one of it. I mean, •er and over t makes our at we enjoy Bible when ny Bible so in work the ill find the Ques. How can we save the young men of the country, and get them into the Christian Endeavor Society ? Ans. (E. B. Dillingham). That was answered in Dr. Gordon's address the other evening. The same way you do every one else. Go for them. Ques. How shall we work in the country churches to reach the outsiders ? Ans. (Mr. Torrey). I think the same answer is good for that. [Laughter.] Go for them with wagons. Have cottage meetings in the school-houses, and In the homes. Organize them for personal work. If you organize, do somethinjr A great many organize, but never do anything. I would rather have an unorgan- ized man, who is doing something, than an organized man, who is not doing anything. (2ues. How shall we get those, who are converted in the missions to be- come connected with the churches ? Ans. (Mrs. H. J. Pierson). I think the best way is for Christians to go where the missions are and prove to those who are converted that they love them, and they will follow you anywhere you be- long.— /'. Geo. D. Dawkontt, page 435. : ' MOUNTAINS REMOVED. I have been thinking through this Convention that I would like to leave with all of you the eleventh of Mark. It seems to me, we have some wonderful teaching in regard to Christian life there. I remember a few years ago coming to this verse. " For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass ; he shall have whatsoever he saith." I read that verse over and over, and for a long time I could not read anything else, and 1 saw it was as much for the disciples of to-day as it was for those of the time of Christ. I did not have the faith to say to the mountains of difficulty, *' Be thou removed." The second step is, " What things soever ye desire, when we pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." That stirred me considerably, till I remembered this verse in the First Epistle of John, " If we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us." I said, " If I ask anything in accordance with His will, I can aik it in confidence and know that He hears me." 1 know that the Lord has brought that chapter home to me. If you will read it, you will find that, when our Lord came to the Temple, it must first be cleansed before He could dwell in it-. Dear friends, if we would have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, remember that first the temple must be cleansed, and then go forth into this work which has been presented here, each one saying in Jesus Christ to the mountains, " Be thou removed." — Mrs. H. J. Pierson, page 435. r " IN PRISON AND YE CAME UNTO ME." I just want to speak of one thing that I am going to do by the help of Jesus that I haven't done before. When Brother Davis said to me yesterday afternoon, ".Wont you go with me to the police station at eight o'clock to-morrow morn- ing ? " I said, " I cannot go. I would love to go, but I cannot." But after I heard his report I said, " I will go, if I crawl on my hands and knees." [Applause.] And I was down there to-day, before he was. I tell you. my friends, dear Brother Miller and I have been talking about this, and we have got to go to that police station every morning. I am in my fifty-fourth year, but he isi only twenty-four, thank God ! We are going to try and get down there. Oh, the sights I saw there this morning ! Two little girls were in there, one eight and the other ten years old, committed for burglary, and their mother was there to see them. I could not stand it to look at those little girls only eight and ten N CLOSINCJ WORDS. fff years old. I went to talk with a little boy twelve years old. Then we talked with men and dear Davis did something that I never did. He said to a prisoner, " My dear Brother, 1 want your hand. I want to (eel the touch of your hand before we kneel here in prayer." As they knelt there clasping hands I learned a new lesson. Then he said, " O my Brother, it is Jesus that keeps me this side the bars. If it were not for Jesus, 1 should be on the other side with you." I tell you, my dear brethren, I have learned many lessons in this (.'onvention. How I thank God for it ! I am going to be a better Christian for it, a humbler worker. I am going to spend and be spent more than I have. And I am going out not to be ministered unto but to minister in His name. — H.J. OilletU, page 437. • CLOSING WORDS. I am impressed after this week of marvellous inspiration and uplift with the danger for you and me to have come here for these six or seven days and, having our hearts glow and our wtole beings stirred over and over, to go out and not say, " Lord, what wilt Thou h«ve me to do } " If we do not do it, the next time it will take a g04)d deal biggei Convention to bring us up where we are now. If we are not going to lose by reason of this Convention, we must endeav- or not to go home and say, " My pastor should be a better man and preach better," but, " What am / going to do and be ? " Then the inspiration turned to something practical will grow and grow, and something will come of it. I just wanted to say that for us to have our feelings moved and be inspired as we have been and elevated and not put that inspiration into action is a dangerous thing. Rev. H.H. Kelsey, page ^^. The impression this Convention has made on me is this, that it is not by might nor by power ; it is not by organization or by planning this way or that, but by the Holy Ghost. When we have heard such reports as we have during the past week, I think, Mr. Chairman, when we go from this house to-night, workers all over this land, we shall go with a determination to put our trust in God more than ever, and pray God that we may be filled with the Holy Ghost. E. B. Dillingham, page 440. I have always believed in the Holy Ghost. I have believed His power was able to help me in my work, but I have wanted to do the planning, and I have wanted Him to do the work. I wanted to give the orders and let Him come and assist me, but that is changed now, I believe. I think I shall go back home to work and ask Him to use me. — A Delegate, page 440. The dear Master has given me a message in Nehemiah, the eighth chapter and tenth verse, " Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send por- tions unto them for whom nothing is prepaied : for this day is holy unto our Lord : neither be ye sorry ; for the joy of the Lord is your strength." — Miss B. H. Wright, page 444. •I ■-* ■. nate* 4Rl«w«««>«rtrt(itK;«MNai|M|pii««^ ixfSJ^s^ Ax^PENDIX.^^ :■ «»wr*1 Brt *>f i«1»lW>«|t^ii. I i i.i -*.- —-.•- ^«:»':'/^ji»Afci>rf,#\-> U so APPENDIX. HOW TO SEND MOMEY. To send money in an ordinary letter is, of course, subject to considerable risk. Our experience, how- ever, has been not unfavorable witii this method. Bills should be carefully wrapped, so as not to show through the envelope. Money sent in this wav is at the responsibility of the one sendinjf it. Postal notes are only a trifle safer, if any, than ordinary bills. A registered letter is a very desirable way of sending money, as it is perfectly safe and the sender, if in the United States, receives a receipt sent by the Post Office authorities and signed by the person to whom it is addressed. Checks, whether they are large or small are readily cashed at the New Haven banks without expense, and it is not even necessary that they should be New York checks or drafts. This is safe and inexpensive. All such checks should be made payable to •' The Bureau of Supplies." Address all communications to ^ ' , BUREAU OF SUPPLIES, First National Bani< Building, New Haven, Conn. In sending orders for " Personal Christian Work," " Reaching the Masses," Ri ports of the Conventions, etc., please either copy the form below or fill it out and cut off on the black lines. Bureau of Supplies, New Haven, Conn., Please send me, copies " Personal Christian Work ; Why and How." also. copies " Reaching the Masses and How it is Done ■■ ..copies * i Enclosed find ^dollars. Name, t — Street and No. (if city) - City, town or village, State, ♦ //■// /« of/ier publications if desired. t Fill in the title -with the name, and ladies will please write in " Miss " or " Mrs." I APPENDIX. 5» ORIGIN AND WORK COMMITTEE FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA AND CO-OPERATING MEMBERS. '...:, —International Christian Workers Association,— The Committee was appointed at the Convention of Christian Worlcers — leaders in missions, evangelists, pastors, laymen and others of various denomi- nations, engaged or interested in special efforts to reach the classes outside of the ordinary ministrations of the church— held in Chicago, 111., for eight days, June 16-23. 1886. In the words of the resolution under which they were appointed they were " to secure more zealous and united effort in the work of evangelizing the masses, who are not reached by the ordinary ministrations of the Gospel * ♦ ♦ to act in any wise way so as to promote union among the various city evangeliza- tion agencie's, to strengthen the hands of the workers, to bring new laborers into the field, co-operate with the churches without regard to denomination, and otherwise plan for and prosecute, as stewards of Jesus Christ and representatives of the Christian workers of America, this work among the lost and perishing multitudes." The Committee were also instructed to call a second Convention of Christian workers for purposes of conference, fellowship, discussion of plans and methods of Christian work. This Convention was held in the Broadway Taber- nacle, New York City, for eight days, Sept. 21-28, 1887. At the New York Convention the Committee was made a permanent Com- mittee, subject f.o the authority of future Conventions. It was also voted that the work of the Committee should be continued under the resolution as above, and that they should call and arrange for Conventions similar to those already held. Three annual CorfVitftions have since been held — Detroit, Mich, (six days, Nov. 15-26, 1888), Buffalo, N. Y. (six days, Oct. 24-29, 1889), and Hartford, Conn, (seven days, Nov. 6-12, 1890). The most important work of the Committee in addit'o.: to acting as a bureau of information for the benefit of Christian work and workers has been : 1 . Reports of each of the Conventions, making pamphlets of from 1 50 to 460 pages have been published and many thousands of copies have been distrib- iited and sold in the United States, Canada and elsewhere. These reports are practically pen-pictures of the Conventions, giving many of the prayers, questions, answers and brief talks which follow the twenty or twenty-five minutes' opening papers and address s. They are considered by many the best books in the English language on American mission and church methods among the unevange- lized classes. The effect of their distribution among theological students, mission workers, pastors and church members is to encourage s>'stematic and thorough work as well as increase Christian zeal and earnestness. It is, in fact, the same as that produced by th« Convention itself, which " its attendants," in the words of a prominent Massachusetts pastor, " are tempted to pronounce the most live, practical, aggressive, soul-revaing and soul-cheering gathering among the hun- dreds that clai'n our time." 2. The '3oys' Work or Work for Boys which at the close of the New York 'Ik I I i a J ^! i 52 APPENDIX. Convention, the Committee voted authority to the Secretary to organize through- out the United States and Canada. This is a work for boys who are accustomed to spend their evenings about the streets and in other places of temptation. It was begun by the appointment of a Committee in Connecticut in Nov. 1887. This was soon followed by the organization of the International Committee and the appointment of the Committee for Massachusetts. The International Com- mittee at present are President Franklin Carter of Williams College, Chairman, Williamstown, Mass.; Charles E. Graves, Treasurer, New Haven Conn.; Ernest Whitney, Secretary, Colorado Springs. Col.; Rev. John C. Collins, General Superintendent, New Haven, Conn.; John V. Farwell, Chicago, HI.; C. B. Knevals, New York, N. Y.; Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford, Conn.; S. H. Blake, Toronto, Can. About fourteen thousand boys have been gathered into the rooms which have been organized and twenty Clubs are now in operation, chiefly in Massa- chusetts and Connecticut. The rooms are in charge of Christian young men as Superintendents and are open evenings during the colder months of the year usually from seven to nine o'clock. The Superintendents give their time during the day to visiting the boys in their homes, becoming acquainted with them, learning their surroundings and in various ways judiciously helping them. The plan is not to hold what are usually known as religious meetings but by opening the rooms and attracting the boys during the week evenings from the streets by means of int Testing books and innocent amusements, obtain access to them and do Christian work among them individually, connect them with Sunday schools, lead them to become Christians and also help them in temporal matters by means of Manual Training Classes, Penny Savings Banks, etc. 3. A Committee has also been appointed for Student Work of which Rev. Graham Taylor, D. D., of Hartford, Conn., is Chairman ; Rev . H. Lee, of Springfield, Mass., Secretary, and Daniel R. Howe, of Hartford, Conk. . Treasurer. The plan for the Student Work is to furnish employment for college students during their summer vacations in mission work under the direction of capable and successful Christian workers. It is believ( d, if the young m«. a from our colleges, who intend to enter the ministry, can thas be brought into contact with the peopic and learn by actual touch the secret of hov/ to win the lost to Christ, that the benefit to the church of Christ and the world through their future ministry will be immeasurably increased. Already from twenty to thirty students are employed each summer in this way. Full details of this work as well as that for the street boys are found in the Reports. 4. A Bureau of Supplies has also been established, which has for its object the publishing of the Reports, furnishing Boys' Clubs with outfit of books, games, etc., and the publishing and distribution among Christians at work of tracts, leaflets, etc., adapted to growth in Christian life and work. 5. The Co-operating membership. A formal organization with constitu- tion and definite rules was carefully avoided at the flrst as a pai, of the plan of work. As the work widened our and gave promise of great results through the various departments of work, as that for the boys, the students and the Conven- tions, the Committee felt that some -plan should be perfected by which the Christians at work and those specially interested in sudi work might share in their work and plans in a definite and responsible way. They, therefore, voted it tu- of ^he en- be in bed APPENDIX. 55 in May. 1888, previous to the Detroit Convention, to establish a Co-operating membership. This membership does not interfere with the rights af all evangeli- cal Christians to attend the Conventions and participate, as far as they desire, in their proceedings, except that the right to vote is limited to the members of the Committee and Co-operating members. The test of membership or simple creed, as it may be called, is " Co-operating members shall be persons who pro- fess to love the Lord Jesus Christ «nd whose lives agree therewith." They are elected by the Committee. They may be nominated by any member of the Committee or Co-operating member by sending their names to the Secretary. On notification of election by the Secretary of the Committee, the one elected a Co-operating member determines the class of Co-operating membership, that is, such a one chooses whether to belong to the Sustaining or Associate membership class, these classes with privileges and obligations being as follows : " Any one elected a Co-operating member may become a Sustaining mem- ber by a contribution of (or an agreement to contribute) Jh'e dollars or more annually. Sustaining members shall be Co-operating members of iht first class, and have the right to vote at Conventions and otherwise participate in the proceedings of Conventions. They receive a copy of the Proceedings of Conven- tions and all other documents issued by the Committee. They may nominate Co-operating members, and all vacancies in the Committee will be filled from tlieir membership. " Any one duly elected a Co-operating member may become an Associate member by contributing (or agreeing to contribute) two dollars annually. Associate members shall be Co-ope; ating members of the second class. They have the right to nominate Co-operating members, to vote and otherwise partici- pate in the Proceedings of the Conventions. They receive a copy of the Proceed- ings of Conventions and all other documents published by the Committee." By a later vote of the Committee, Sustaining Co-operating members are entitled to a full set of the Reports of the Conventions, that is, to the Reports of the five Conventions which have been held and to all plans of work, reports, papers, etc., which may be published from time to time, and Associate members receive Reports, plans of work, etc., published during the year with which membership begins and thereafter as long as membership continues. In resolutions of the same date as that establishing the Co-operating mem- bership, the Committee voted that each of its own members pay ten dollars annually, and that neither the members of the Committee nor the Co-operati: % members should be responsible financially, except for annual dues. It is not the desire of the Committee or those associated in the present Co- operating membership to limit the membership to a chosen few, and they will elect to membership any evangelical C^'' "ian who can give reasonable guaran- tee of Christian character. The eir iion by the Committee is only for the purpose of limiting the membership to those, who can give such guaran- tee, either by nomination by some member of the Committee or by a Co-operat- ing member. Co-operating membership begins /<»• the full year with the first of January of each year, those receiving election during the first six months of the year having their membership begin with the first of January of that year and those receiving election during the last six months having their membership /tv/ar/^^ar begin with the first of July of that year and paying half year fees to the first of January 54 APPENDIX. I of the following year when the full year will begin. All annual fees for full year are payable on the first of January of each year and for part year — that is. when membership is accepted between July and January — at any time before January first. This arrangement of " part years " is for simplicity and accuracy in keep- ing the membership and Treasurer's books, and to secure for members joining after July first, the Reports of Conventions issued that year. Co-operating members represent the Committee in the various states, cities and t )wns where they reside and may engage in Christian work as repre- sentatives of the Committee as they may wish and as may be approved by the Committee. The duties of the Co-operating member are similar to those of the members of any society. They are the constituency of the Committee — without interfering in any way with the rights of others engaged or interested in Christian work to attend and participate in the proceedings of the Conventions. This plan of forming through a Co-operating membership an evangelical union for Christian work has been received with great favor by prominent Christians in the United States and Canada, and about seven hundred of the best known workers in these countries have become Co-operating members. A definite income has also been provided, and the Christian workers who have come into closer and more responsible association with the work have added in many ways to its efficiency. The work and the lines along which it was proposed to develop it had become so well understood, and the simple machinery by which it is to be carried on was so systematized that at the Buffalo Convention in October, 1889 it was voted that the Committee and Co-operating members put the rules which had been previously made for carrying on the work into simple and definite articles of association and become incorporated under the laws of the State of Connecti- cut. This vote has been carried out and the Committee and Co-operating members were incorporated, Nov. 4, 1 890, under the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut, as the International Christian Workers Association. Under these Articles of Association the previous rules for carrying on the work have been retained. The management of the Association is placed, as before, in the hands of the Committee, who are made responsible to the members of the Asso- ciation as they may meet in special meeting at any time. No business of the Association as an Association is transacted at the Conventions, these being given up wholly to discussion and consideration of plans and methods of Christian work and all Christians interested or engaged in such work being invited to be present and participate in the discussions, but without the right to vote, as previously stated. The officers and members of the Committee are as follows : Rev. R. A. Tor- rey. Chairman, Superintendent Bible Institute, Chicago, 111.; Rev. John C. Collins. Secretary and Treasurer, First National Bank Building, New Haven, Conn.; W. H. Howland, Toronto Mission Union, Toronto, Can.; Rev. S. P. Holcombe. Central Gospel Mission, Detroit, Mich.; Rev. Russell H. Conwell, Pastor Grace Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa.; Col. Geo. R. Clarke, Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago, III.; C. N. Crittenton, Florence Night Mission, New York, N. Y.; Mrs. J. K. Barney, Prison Evangelist, N. W. C. T. U., Providence, R. I.; Miss Bertha H. Wright, Young Woman's Christian Institute, Ottawa, Can. ■fTSP" APPtNUIX. BIOeRAPHIOAL NOTU. II In " Reaching the Masses and How it is Done " information concerning the speaicer and the work is usually eiven through a few words of introduction by the Chairman or in the stor>* of the work. The following brief biographical notes are for the purpose of giving such information concerning those whose names are appended at the ck- ; ofeach selection in " Personal Christian Work," when this information may not be gathered from the selection itself. Howland, \Vm. H., business man and ex-mayor of Toronto, Can.; connected in Christian work with Toronto Mission Union ;' member of the Committee for Christian Workers in the United States and Canada. Torrey. Rev. R. A., Chairman qf the Convention and also of the Committee for Christian Workers in the United States and Canada and Superintendent of Mr. Moody's Bible Institute and Chicago Evangelization Society, Chicago, 111. Kinney, Rev. H. N., Pastor Congregational Church, Winsted, Conn. Davis, D. L., editor and publisher of the " Union Gospel News," Cleve- land, O. Wright, Miss Bertha H., Ottawa, Can., edits and publishes " Friend of the Friendless,!' a monthly publication ; Superintendent Ottawa Young Women's Christian Institute and also Superintendent Home for Friendless Women ; evangelist and Christian worker in connection with Christian work in Ottawa. Sampson, A., lawyer, Toronto, Can.; connected with the Toconto Mission Union. Clarke, Col. Geo. R., busines.x man, founder and superintendent Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago, 111. Gordon, D. D„ Rev. A. J., pastor Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston. Barney, Mrs. J. K., Providence, R. I., for many years, till 1891, Superin- tendent. Prison, Jail and Almshouse Work, N. W. C. T. U., and leader with other work in the movement for the appointment of police matrons in police stations ; now prison evangelist. World's W. C. T. U. Lamb, Rev. F. M., pastor Baptist Church, Williamsbridge, N. Y. Childs, J. Ward, Superintendent Bowery Mission, ^ ' Bowery, New York. WooUey, John G., Temperance Evangelist and founder of Rest Island work for intemperate men. Lake City, Minn. Yatman, Rev. C. H., evangelist, residence, Newark, N. J. Hadley, S. H., successor of Jerry McAuley and Superintendent of the Water Street Mission, 316 Water St., New York City. Davis, J. C, Toronto. Can., workingman and mission worker in Gospel Carriage work, Toronto, Can. Hector, Rev. John H., York, Pa., lecturer and temperance worker, formerly pastor of large and flourishing colored churches in San Francisco and Washington. Clarke, Mrs. Geo. R., associated with her husband. Col. Geo. R. Clarke, in the work of the Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago, 111. Coffin, Miss C. E„ stenographer, Brooklyn, N. Y., Superintendent Prison, Jail and Almshouse Work, N. W. C. T. U. Pierson, H. J., Boston, Mass., in Christian work with Gospel Carriage in which he visits and preaches in different cities in various sections of the country. Tomkins, Jr., Rev. Floyd W., formerly Rector Christ's Church, Hartford, Conn., now Rector St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Chicago, III. Mills, Rev. C. S., formerly Pastor Congrejgational church in North Brookiield, Mas3., now pastor of Congregational church in Cleveland, O. Hammond, Rev. Edward Payson, evangelist, resideuc. Hartford, Conn. Taylor, D. D., Rev, Graham, Professor Practical Theology, Hartford Theo- I ■] .JO APPENDIX. logical Seminary and paKtor -Fourth Congregational Churcii. Hartford, Conn. Burlingame, Mrs. E. S.. Fawtu.xet, R. I., naticnai evangelist under appoint- ment Free Baptist Association, Rhode Island. Gillette, H. /., City evangelist, Hartford, Conn. " Dowkontt. Dr. Geo. D., founder and General Superintendent, International Medical Missionary Society, New York City. Conwell. Rev. Russell H.. Philadelphia. I'a., pastor Clrace Baptist Church, whose audience room seats about five thousand people. Kelsey. Rev, H. H., pastor Fourth Cons^regational Church, Hartford, Conn. Dillingham, E. B., btismess man, Hartford, Conn. • -'. I. '.''iiiyi'l: l^^;:v-\\ '%<;::},-}■":■ !ii--«'-dr' \.i,r: V'ijik :\y.l >' A: ;J- - ««j'* ^- Lji) y..j, 11 1^; u . j s u « | » ^i | i jy i \^.w » iii j^u ) i .ifffM i flp i APPENDIX. S7 I^EACHING THE MASSES RfiO HOW IT IS OOflH. If the knowledge of the Goopel is the supreme need of the world, and this no Christian will doubt, this booic is for every Christian, who desires to know more and to do more in bringing this knowledge into the hearts and lives of perishing men the book of the year. The size of the page, style of paper, type, binding, etc., is the same as the booklet " Personal Christian Work ; Why and How." which consists of selections from its pages. It contains four hundred and sixty pages with cuu and plans of the great Vanderbilt Mission which is now being erected in New York city at an expense of nearly three hundred thousand dollars, and which is, perhaps, the best planned Christian-work building in the world. It also contains cuts of three Gospel wagons, with full description by the workers themselves of how they are used, which is the latest and most desirable form of open air work in cities during the summer. Besides these there are portraits of Dr. A. J. Gordon of Boston, Rev. E. Payson Hammond, Rev. John H. Hector, Mr. Thomas D. Roberts of Boston, Rev. Russell H. Conwell of Philadelphia, a group of boys in a Boys' Club and of Boys' Club Superintendents. It will be sent to any address in the world by the Bureau of Supplies, New Haven, Conn., on receipt of one dollar. The following are some of the subjects, each«of which is usually followed by a discussion with questions and answers thoroughly going over the subject under consideration. 1. " The Whole Church at Work," by Rev. H. N. Kinney, Pastor Congre- gational Church, Winsted, Conn., is the story of a church in a country district rally organized and officered, doing a most remarkable and successful work und'S' circumstances which are usually considered most unfavorable. 2. " Hand-Picking in Christian Work," is the address by W. H. Howland of Toronto, part of which is given in " Personal Christian Work ; Why and How." It should be understood that all of the selections in this booklet are practically detached sentences from longer and more complete addresses and that in many respects they are incomplete, but it was impossible to print the addresses in full. 3. " The Baptist Tabernacle," by Rev. M. R. Deming of Boston, is the story of the building up in the last few years of a city church which in the words of Mr. Deming " had been closed for two years and was sadly in need of repair, and for the possession of which lawsuits were in progress," and against which there was also " an intense prejudice in the community on account of dissensions, ending in the breaking up of the church organization previously occupying it." It is most suggestive and helpful for any city pastor, and, although he may not be able to copy or use all the various features of Uie plan of wonc, he would find in it much that would be suggestive and hel|>ful. 4. " The Sunday Evenine Service," by Rev. C. S. Mills of North Brookfield, Mass. Mr. Mills with several other pastors :s the author of the Brookfield Services, and he brings out in this address and in the discussion following his latest views on how to secure a Sunday evening audience and do the very best work possible. 5. Bible Reading, " The Model Worker," by Mrs. J. K. Barney of Provi- dence. R. I. Part of this is given m " Personal Christian Work ; Why and How." 6. " Every Christian at Work," by Rev. A. J Gordon. D. D. of Boston. It is a matter of great regret that the size of the booklet would not allow the rf H APPENDIX. . ! ^ ,^ : , printing of Dr. Gordon's entire address, but every one, it is believed, who reads the detached sentences which are put into th; booklet from this marvellous address, will wish to secure the entire address, which was the Convention ser- mon and filled with inspiration and in^^truction. It would well bear rcprintinc in a separate book and m the hands of ordinary publishers, the matter, which it contains might readily be expanded into a book which would probably t)e sold for a sum not less than that which " Reaching the Masses "—practically contain- ing thirty or forty books — can be obtained. 7. .".The Boston Missionary Training School," by Rev. A.J. Gordon, D. D. This is a story of Dr. Gordon's work in preparing young men of moderate education for Christian work, giving what he considers the essentials of prepara- tion for such work. 8. " Tent Work." with cut of tent by Rev. F. L. Smith. New York. This is a story of practical experience in this work and together with the discussion it covers the ground in a most thorough manner. 9. " The Bowery Mission, " by J. Ward Childs, is the story of one of the greatest but not verv widely known missions of the country, in which a very wonderful work, chiefly for men, has been done. 10. " The Brotherhood of St. Andrew," by Rev. E. S. Lines of New Haven, Conn. This is a full account of the Brotherhood of young men in the Episcopal Church for work among young men. 11. " Young Men and the Church ; Why they are Out ; How to Get Them In." This is an address with disscussion by Rev. C. A. Dickinsoi,, Pastor Berkeley Temple, Boston, Mass. Mr. Dickinson has had very large success in a church with every modern equipment for work for young men and his inferences, plans and suggestions cannot but prove most useful to any pastor and Christian worker desiring to reach young men through the ordinary and regular work of the church. " ' ~ power — it wonderful reat lose 12. " Winning Forces in Christian Work," an address of gi might be called " Life and Fire " — by Rev. C. H. Yatman, wh^ work as one of the great evangelists is known to many. 13. " How to Save the Boys." This is an account by Rev. John C. Collins of the Boys' Ciub work of the Committee for Christian Workers in the United States and Canada, by means of which over fourteen thousand street boys have been reached and brought under Christian influences in the past three years and a half. It is a reliable and interesting statement of this work which is becoming very widely known and from which many earnest Christians have largt expecta- tions as an agency in reaching and winning to Christ and good citizer ship this most needy class of boys. In the discussion there are brief addresses by a num- ber of the superintendents. In connection with this address there is a picture of a group of the boys and of a group of the ^-superintendents and officers, showing both the class of boys who are reached and the class of young men who are officers and superintendents. 14. " The Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission." This is the story of the work and of the methods of the famous Water Street Mission founded by Jerry McAuley, and which is still in successful operation and doing a remarkable work among the most hopeless of classes. It is told by S. H. Hadley, the present superintendent of the mission, a brief account of whose conversion is given in " Personal Christian Work." 15. " The Christian Worker ; His Qualifications and Standing," by W. H. Howland. Part of this is given in the booklet " Personal Christian Work ; Why and How," under the heading " Go to Work," beginning on page 27. Its value is best shown by this extract. 16. " The Toronto Mission Union," by A. Sampson, Toronto Can., an account of a practical soUk winning union mission work in a city of a hundred (uid fifty thousand inhabitants. APPENDIX. J9 17. " The Central Union Mission. " Washington, D. C. This is one of the most successful union city missions in America. The report of the manner of working so that the whole city of Washington is practically covered by its oper- ations, thousands of meetings held yearly; with many hundreds of conversions and all in touch with the city churches is given by Mr. Geo. W. Wheeler, one of the directors. 18. " The Facific Garden Mission," Chicago, 111., by Col. Geo. R. Clarke, the founder and present superintendent. This is a mission in one of the darkest and most abandoned places of a great American city, which has been carried on for over thirteen years by Col. Clarke, a Christian business man who devotes his davs to his business and his evenings with the assistance of a devoted Christian wife to the mission, in which over forty thousand persons have confessed con- version since its organization. 19. " St. Bartholomew's Mission," by Col. H. H. Hadley, a brief outline of the present condition and work of St. Bartholomew's Mission connected with St. Bartholomew's Church, New York, and which is to be carried on in the future in the new and great modern mission house built by Mr. Cor..elius and Mrs. Wm. H. Vanderbilt at aii expense of nearly three hundred thousand dollars and of which full plans are given as a frontispiece in " Reaching the Masses." 20. " The Jersey City Tabernacle," by Rev. John L. Scudder, who brings out the phase of the place and work of athletics as an attraction for young men in winning them to a Christian life. Mr. Scudder has opened and is carrying on with great success a " People's Palace," the details and the results of which he gives m this address. 21. " How to Read the Bible in Public so as to Express its Meaning and Spirit," a most suggestive address, followed by discussion as is also Mr. Scud- der's and nearly all the other addresses, by C. Wesley Emerson of Boston, Presi- dent of the Emerson College of Oratory. 22. " Outlines of Doctrine Essential to Leaders and Teachers in Christian work," by Rev. R. A. Torrey. Part of this remarkable address is found in " Personal Christian Work." It was almost an mjustice to Mr. Torrey to try to outline or still further condense what was originally an outline. The full address will be found to add very largely in effectiveness to the outline as it appears in " Personal Christian Work ' 23. " Christian Correspondence Aid for Prisonere,' by Mrs. M. O. Kimball, Fredonia, N. Y— a practical experience covering r:any years of most successful work in saving and winning to Christ hardened crLninak by means of correspond- ence. 24. " The Guard of Honor," by Rev. John C. Collins— a wonderful method in use in one of our larre cities for saving homeless men, nearly ten thousand of whom have been brougnt out of the lowest depths of degradation. 25. " Mission Work in Atlanta," by J. F. Barclay— a suggestive story of work for Christ in one of the great cities of the South. 26. " Christian Work in Ottawa," by Miss Bertha H. Wright— a story of Christian daring and the keeping power of God rarely equalled. 27. " The Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip," by Rev. Rufus W. Miller of Reading Pa., the founder, who sets forth in a very clear manner an organiza- tion for work by j Jung men, in connection with church organization, for young men, and which may be aC pted for use in any church. r", " Christian Police Association in Great Britain," by Mrs. J. K. Barney of Providence, R. I.— the methods of work by which the Christian police of Great Britain are hound together in a g^reat brotherhood for work for their fellow members. 29. " The Market Street Mission," Morristown, N. J., by Thos. B. Iron- side — an account of work by a church in a small city by which it has gone ^QO API'KNItlX. ' ( out and is ministering! succeufullv to those whom it could not bring directly and immediately into its regular church services. 30. •' Street Preaching in London," by Rev. E. H. Dyington of Springfield, Ma.?«/. C. H. Yatman, Evangelist, Newark, N.J. " Full of interest and instruction."— J/rj.y. A'. C. " The Convention was composed of some of the best itnown workers in the country' ; and to read the book is an inspiration next only to that obtained by attendance of the Convention itself." — Salftn \Mass,\ (laxetle, " It is deliRhtful."— il//M //. *f. Prosser. Huff ah, N. Y. " The I'rinted Proceedings of last Convention reproduces the whole thing like a photograph." " I find it better than I expected. If I could not get another copy, would not part with it for twice its cost." " It ought to be in the home of every Christian family." " A great book. A beautiful specimen of the printer's art • • its pages are a wonderfully inspiring panorama of the various lines and phases of Christian work carried on at present in the various cities ai>d towns in our country and Canada. Everybody ought to have a copy."— J/zw/ow Bulletin, Washington, D. C. " It certainly is a grand book, worth five times the price, an inspiration to all who read it and a valuable addition to any library." " I like it amazingly. The only trouble is that I am tempted to neglect my work to read it. It is one of those cases where ' truth is stranger than fiction,' and more deeply interesting and valuable, too." — Eev, IVui. Sewall, Tempiiton, Mass. " Wonderfully stimulating reading. It cannot help doing great good and you ought to feel that no work you might be able to do is of greater importance or will De more used of God. It seems to me that in no way can earnest, practi- cal, direct work for lost souls be stimulated so quickly and effectively as through the readmg of this newest edition of the ' Acts of the Apostles.' "—A'ev. IV. B. Stocking, Superintendent Eairview Home for friendless Children, IVest Trcy,N. Y. " Am exceedingly pleased with it. It came just as I was feeling some revulsion from certain things that characterize what Dr. Parkhursr has called ' pious mousing amongst apocalyptic bric-a-brac,' and with its wholesome tone and aggressive spirit was exceedingly healthful." — A. Pastor. " The Convention was a remarkable one for the number of well known and experienced workers present, and for the value of the papers, addresses and dis- cussions, bearing upon almost all phases of missionary and evangelistic work in our land. The volume is much more than a mere report, being a nearly verba- tim reproduction of what was said and done during all the sessions of the Con- vention, extending through the entire week, and presenting in a vivid manner the experiences of many who have' been foremost in ihe work." — Salem Register, Mass. " As near to life as letters can, as through phonog.'aph and camera they let you both hear and see what was said and done. Prayers and songs, addresses and discussions, side-remarks and the by-play of thought and feeling, the worker, the work and uiose worked for — all are there. The book is alive and begets life. * * One of the most invaluable treasuries of methods of Christian work that our times have produced." — Bev. Graham Taylor, D. D., Professor of Practi' cat Theolc^y in Hartford Theological Seminary. " It represents every branch of Christian work being carried on in the world and gives unquestionably the most reliable and helpful information in' regard to the various forms of Christian work of anything ever published. The tMok does not represent theory but actual, practical work done. No pastor or Christian worker can afford to be without this book." — Union Gospel News, i I APPENDIX. ADVERTISEMENTS. A few ■«!■ of the reports of (he hr»t four Conventions of Christian Workers in the United States and Canada have not yet been sold and can be obtained for tliree dollars per set by addressing Bureau of Supplies, First National Bank iluilding, New Haven, Conn. These books can be bound together, making one volume of moderate sixe, but containing about one thousand pages of the most iiisiruciive and entertaining reading that a Christian worker can obtain. Plates were made of the fourth Report, but there are no plates of the Arst three Reports, so that when the edition is exhausted of either o. them no more complete sets can be obtained. These books have a permanent value far beyond what would be believed by one who has not read them, and those desiring them should order, at once, as i( is not probable that they will ever be reprinted, and thus no full set can be obtained after the edition of any one of the books Is disposed of. They will undoubtedly be worth at any time In the future as much if not more than they are nbw sold (or, and those having copies who may wish to dispose of them two or three years hence can undoubtedly tind a ready sale for them. I. The Report of the first Convention (Chicago, III., eight days, June 16-33, 1886), contains about one hundred and tifty pages, portraits of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Stebbins, Elder Rufus Smith, Florence Crittenton, Jerry McAuley and a very valuable appendix of printed helps for Christian work. Some of the subjects reported and discussed were: [t.] " Religious Statistics" — how to ob- tain rapidly and at small expense the religious condition of a city, [a,] " How to Get and Hold Children in Sunday School," Rev. J. M. Hitchcock. [3.] "Oversight of Church Members," Rev. A. F. SchaufHer. [4.] " The Ideal Church," Hon. John V. Farwell. [5.] " How to Deal with Inquirers." [6.] " The Chicago Avenue Church." (Plans and methods of work in Mr. Moody's Chicago church). One of the chief values of this Report, as in fact all of the Reports, is in the answers to questions and the suggestions which come out in the handling of each subject. This Report has an additional value in the appendix of " printed helps in Christian work." This append i.v contains: [i.J A Christiar. i Ife Card, which has been prepared by Mr. Torrey and is a very use- ful little can: with a large number of most helpful texts to be given to those jus' entering the Christian life, [a.] A Sunday school Album with full descriptions as to how it may be made in an inexpensive manner and directions as to its use. [3.] The Penny Ticket used by Rev. A. F. SchaufHer in his Sunday school and which is given to children for prompt attendance at Sunday school or in any other way as a reward and which may be exchanged for Bibles, singing books or placed in the contribution. [4.] Admission Memorandum used in Sunday school. [$.] Parents' Certificate signed by parents of children who attend a mission school and who are thus interested to encourage their children to attend faithfully. [6.] The rules for a Penny Savings Bank. [7.] Member's Residence and Attendance Card used by Dr. George F. Pentecost in keeping oversight of his large member- ship, when pastor of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. [8.] Order of exercises in Sunday school, which gives variety and brings in Scripture frequently, and affords opportunity for the members of the Sunday school to learn difierent selections of the Scripture to be repeated from time to time. [9.] The blank leaf of a Record Book to be used in a mission school by which a thorough record may be kept of a pupil, number of times punctual, per. feet lessons, when he joins the church, etc., for eight years, and all on a single page. [10.] Rules for marking records and keeping the average standing o( m I Workers tained (or nal Bank iklng one [ the most I. Plates t Reports, e sets can would be uld order, no full set of. They more than •e of them une 16-23, and Mrs, McAuley sme of tho how to ob- i,] " How ^Itchcock. The Ideal ers." [6.] r. Moody's all of the )me out in ue in the ins: li.J I very use- those just riptions as use. [3.1 1 which is ler way as ced in the Parents' and who [6.] The ttendance member- Brooklyn, ,nd brings « Sunday tm time to school by ctual, per- m a single inding o( I Ml APPENDIX. 6^ pupils in Sunday Schuitl. The manner of marking records is that used by Dr. Schsuifler In the Ullvel Sunday school. The Appendix Is alone well worth the price of (he book. Price per copy, (postage paid) tAirty ctnts. II. The Second Convention, Broadway Tabernacle, New York, eight days, September at-38, 1887. It is a book uf over three hundred pages and contains In addition to addresses and papers, a stenographic report of questions, answers and short addresses, which followed the longer addresses ; also several portraits and cuts of mission buildings. There are over fifty papers and addresses of consider- able length on practical topics relating to mission work among the classes not reached by the ordinary ministrations of the church. The following are some of the subjects: [t.] "Ministerial Training; Its Defects and Remedies," Rev. John H. Denison, I). D. \2.] "What can the Ordinary Church do to Win the Masses?" Rev. David Allen Reed. [3,] "The McAII Mission Methods and their Application to American Cities," Rev, A. F. Beard, D. D., and Rev. JosLih Strong, D. D. U-] "The Ideal Church for the People," Rev. A. T. Pierson, D. D. [5.] "The Boys' Club," Rev. John C. Collins. [6.J "The Training of Theological Smdenis in Mission Work," Rev. A. F. Schautfler, D. D. [7.] " The Housing of the Poor in Relation to Christian Work," Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D. [8.j "The Juvenile Penny Savings Bank for Mission Sunday Schools," Rev. John C. Collins. [(}.] " Open Air Meetings," Rev. R. A. Torrey. [to.] "Do we Need Churches or Missions, or both in City Evangelization?" Rev. Graham Taylor, D. D. [11.] "Our Foreign Mission Field at Home, its Extent and Imiortance, the DifBcully and Practicability of Working it," Rev. H. A. Schauffier. [la.] "The New York Working Girls' Association," Misi Grace H. Dodge. [13.] " IIow to Conduct a Gospel Meeting," Rev. S. P. Holcombe. [14.] "How to Conduct a Children's Service," Rev. E. Payson Hammond. [15.] "Tent Work," Rev. T. C. Horton. [16.] "Woman's Work for Women in Police Courts and Jails," Mrs. J. K. Barney. Price, one dollar per copy. III. Third Convention, Detroit, Mich., six days, Nov. ij-ao, 1888. It con- tains two hundred and twenty pages. This Report in addition to containing very many helpful suggestions and treated under the various headings is perhaps more spiritual than any of the other Reports, and the reader will get a greater benefit ill this respect through this Report than he would probably obtain through the others, Although each of the books will give a great spiritual uplift, which it does not seem possible could be obtained through the mere reading of a book. The life of the Convention seems to have been put into the Reports in a very remark- able manner. In fact, the word " report," which represents in the minds of many a book of statistics and the like, does not give any real idea of what these books are. The following are a few of the subjects : [i.] " The Caste Spirit as a Hindrance to City Evangelization," Rev. C. R. Henderson. [2.] "What Can be Done to Enlist the Churches in Local Evangelization?" Rev. A. T. Pier- son, D. D. [3.] " Christian Liviig," Mrs. J. K. Barney and Rev. A. T. Pier- son. [4.] " Social and Entertainment Accessories in Christian Work," Rev. A. T. Pierson, D. D. [5.] "Certain Phases of Woman's Place and Work," Miss Grace H. Dodge. [6.] " How to Develop and Nurse Mission Converts," Rev. S. P. Holcombe. [7-1 " How to Get the Unconverted to Attend Churches and Missions," Col. George R. Clarke. [8.] "Conversion of Children," Rev. E. P. ^ammond. [9.] " The Christisa Worker and the Word of God," Rev. R. A. torrey. [10 ] "The Secret of Power in Christian Work," Rev, R. A. Torrey. [11.] "The Pastor as an Evangelist and Teacher, or How a Pastor May Promote Revivals, and Build up Converts," Rev. W. H. Bntrick. Price, snenty-fivt e'ents per copy. THE OHRISTiAN LIFE OARDY K not, lend a two-cent stamp for a sample to the Bureau of Supplies, First National Bank Building. New Haven. Conn. It Is a 3 x 4^ inch, four-page card, prepared by Rev. R. A. Torrev, Chairman of the Committee for Christian Work- ers in the United States and Canada, and Superintendent of the Chicago Evan, geliiation Society and Bible Institute. The first page contains a covenant, with appropriate tt .ts, to be signed by one who wishes to become a Christian. The second page is " How to Grow In Or^ct." The third page is " How to Use the Bible," and th-s fourth is " HIntr on True Christian Living." There Is also a small cover on which may be mac'ie a memorandum of the name of the pet on to whom the card is given and who signs the covenant on the first page. This cover with memorandum can thon be detached and retained by the one by whom It is given. There are ab.>ut si venty-Ave texts given undei the headings on the four pages, and it is an invaluable printed aid in Christian work. TBI Tuff TIXIB riTl 00NTBIB7TZ0N OASD. The Ten Times Five Contribution Cud Is a liule acheme for obtainiiw fre- quently small sums of money which will aggregate a lane amount. The idea it to make use of some of the younger children in obuining a small subscription fl.«h week for twelve months. There are some persona who probably could not fflTe the larc" sum at once, but who could divide this amount Into Afty>two parti and give th's nnaller sum each week. Semd a tw«M:«"t •taiup lor aample and description to Butwi of Supplies, First National Bnnk BuUding. New Haven. Conn. "^'ii^aM^siiii i y - AKDY ■ .- ' ^" " 1 reau of Supplies, First • 1 i ioch, four-page card, . 1 ee for Chriitian Work- of the Chicago Evan. ':■.'■-■ i taina a coTenant, with 1 ome a Christian. The • ! e is "How to Use the 't Ing." There is also a name of the pet; on to first page. This cover 1 the one by whom it is 9 headings on the four i. 1 OZrOASD. leme for obtaining fre- 1 amount. The idea is g a small subscription 10 ptobablv could not unt Into injr-two parts itaiap for sample and Building, New Haven, I : "" j.^iTOa ta gaaa w . wiMSSB M ifeMV i ftiiQ i W * ■'•^ iaiwS**^''