ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
turned them over to the Lord. I have the rest of faith." If you have a heart like Christ's, you will know what tears are, my friend. His eyes.filled with tears as He looked over Jeru~ salem, as He saw the sin and unbelief there. The Lord Jesus and Paul both had faith, and yet they knew sorrow. I want us to get the practical lessons here, as well as the dispensational truth. And what compassion filled the heart of our Lord! What a burden for souls Paul had, and what concern filled his heart for the lost people of the house of Israel! We, too, shall know something of that burden if we live near to the heart of God. Every person that has been used as an instrument of God to win lost souls has known something of this sorrow. Have you read of David Brainerd? He was a missionary to the American Indians during the early years of 1800. After his graduation from one of the eastern universities of that day, instead of accepting a call to some influential church, as he had opportunity to do, he went as a missionary to the Indians who were without Christ. He dedicated his life to them and died of galloping tuberculosis as a result of the hard life he had to live, in order. to preach to them. Sometimes, as he went from one tribe to another, he had to swim rivers. Having crossed over a stream, he took off his clothes, wrung out the water, put them on again, and went on. Yet he could write: "I dream of lost souls. I care not what suffering I undergo, as long as I see souls saved." As he approached a group of Indians and saw the smoke rising from their wigwams, he got off his horse, knelt down in the snow, sometimes over a foot deep, and there prayed that God's blessing would rest upon His Word. He prayed so earnestly that the perspiration ran down his face, even though he knelt in the snow. No wonder God's Spirit swept through great crowds of these Indians, and many of them became marvelous tokens of grace! As a result of this man's burden for lost souls. pagan savages were transformed into saints of God. Pa9e 172]
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