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organization of Christian traveling men was started, called “The Gideons,” which has since grown to almost five thousand members, has been instrumental in closing the bars in a number of hotels, and in starting many revivals. The organization is an illustration of the great good that may spring from the personal interest of one earnest Christian. A minister tells us of preaching in one of the colleges of New England. At the close of the service he announced he would be glad to meet all the boys who would talk with him. One of them came to him and said: “Wouldn’t you like me to show you around to my room?” “I saw something was troubling him, and said: ‘Why shouldn’t we talk a few minutes about personal religion?’ I noticed tears in his eyes, as he said: ‘Do you know, yesterday was my twenty-first birthday? Early in the morning I had a letter- mother had written it just so it would come at the right time—and she said: “Are you going to pass the day without becoming a Christian? Take a stand and go and tell somebody about it before night.” ’ ‘Well, then, my dear boy,’ I said, ‘the Lord has brought you and me to gether here tonight.’ I prayed and I asked him to pray. The next morning, though it was cold and snowy, he met me as I drove to the station, and with a light in his face he said: ‘Oh, it is all settled. I settled it last night before I went to bed, and I thank God.’” This is but one of a mul titude of instances of the personal word that is the means of opening the door to the Saviour; n One Solitary Life Here is a man who was born in an ob scure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years, He was an itinerant preacher. He never owned a home. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His feet inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany great ness. He had no credentials but Him self. While still a: young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves, to die as the Lamb of God. His executors gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth, while He was dying, and that was His coat. When He was dead He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. He arose from the dead and ascended to heaven. Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone, and today He is the centerpiece of the human race and the leader of the column of progress. I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever were built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put to gether have not affected the life of man upon this earth as has that One Solitary L ife !—Author unknown.
pray, then they intercede for such every day, and do all in their power to bring them to Jesus.” “That all? Suit me exactly,” said the stoker; and forthwith he started upon that line. Quite a short time after this, a man was found in the same Mission Hall anxious to be saved. In the inquiry room he said simply, “I’m an engine cleaner. I want to be converted because my mate, an engine stoker, prayed for me.” He was the stoker’s first soul. Two traveling salesmen were assigned to the same room in a. crowded hotel. One had the courage to read his Bible before retiring and ask his room mate if he was a Christian. Out of that experience grew a desire to find a way by which Christian travelers might recognize each other, and so these two men, John Nicholson of Janesville, and Sam Hill, of Beloit, invited some traveling friends to meet them. The
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