38 The Fundamentals winners and leaders of other men. Saul of Tarsus was not let alone because he was a persecutor, but was arrested on a highway with a personal word and question. His reply was: “Who art Thou?” and “What wilt Thou have me to do?” Paul, although a great preacher, worked too with individuals, in no more beautiful way ever illustrated than in the touching love he showed for Onesimus, the Phrygian runaway slave, whom he sent back to his master and Paul’s friend at Colossae, Philemon. The greatest advantage which the large meeting has is so interesting individuals in the truth that they will inquire from individuals who are ready to help them, as to the application of the truth they hear. A valuable series of meetings is only sure in interest and result as individuals invite, seek and lead others to be present, and then follow them by individual effort. The successful revivals of today must follow this method if permanent and large results are to be attained. God works through men, and individuals must reach other individuals. One of the most efficient means some have used is that of training men and women to call upon those in their neighbor hood and personally invite them to services not a formal in vitation, but a call in which they may get acquainted and feel at home with one another; one call followed up with another until a friendliness springs up and there is a response. There are many departments in church life that take this work up, such as the Home Department of our Sunday Schools, pastors’ aid and visitation societies, and relative organizations; but there should be a more definite personal responsibility put upon our members as they come into our church, in reaching others, and in extending to them the definite invitation to attend God’s house and give their lives to the Master. The Church of Chrjst universal has an immense force in herself to face the work of winning others to Christ, but we have not used that force. The foreign missionary lands have appre-
Made with FlippingBook flipbook maker