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that delivereth souls is wise.” A good antidote for the stinging regrets of past failures, or cankering care of present perplexities, is to be filled with a liv ing passion for souls. Nothing will de liver us from the tyranny of a past that would lord it over us, like the de votion of Paul: “ This one thing I do.” There is no joy comparable to that of leading a soul to Christ. Not only “ joy in the presence of the angels,” but in the heart of the human instrument. Win one and you have a growing passion to win another, and another, until it be comes a consuming desire and holy de light to seek and save the lost.
THE SOUL WINNER’S JOY A woman who had been rescued from the Iroquois theatre fire, With hands burnt, clothes torn and scorched, hair disheveled, was crying and wringing her hands, and walking to and fro in a trolley car. “ Sit down, woman,” the people said, “ You are in safety now.” “ Ah,” she said, “ I know, but I did not save anybody.” Are we on the watch for souls, snatch ing them as brands from the burning? Or are we content to escape alone— “ saved as by fire” and have no trophies of faith and sacrificial service? “ He
ARE YOU ABOVE PERSONAL WORK? By Dr. R. A. Torrey BELIEVE in preaching. It is a great privilege to | preach the Gospel, hut this world can be reached and m evangelized far more quickly and thoroughly by PER- m SONAL WORK than by public preaching. Indeed, it B can ONLY be reached by personal work. jj When the whole church of Jesus Christ shall rouse jj to its responsibility and privilege in this matter, and B jj every individual Christian become a personal worker, the evangel- 1 J ization of this world will be close at hand. | - Personal work is a work that wins but little applause from J | men but it accomplishes great things for God. |j There are many who think personal work beneath their 1 B dignity and their gifts. A blind woman once came to me and §j B said, “ Do you think that my blindness will hinder me from work- g jj ing for the Master?” “ Not at all; it may be a great help to you, 1 for others seeing your blindness will come and speak to you, and . then you will have an opportunity of giving your testimony for ¡j B Christ, and of leading them to the Savior. ” “ Oh, that is not what | jj I want,” she replied. “ It seems to me a waste of time when one jj ■ i might be speaking to five or six hundred at once, just to be 1 I speaking, to an individual. ” I answer that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ was able to B jj speak to more than five thousand at once, and yet He never m thought personal work beneath His dignity or His gifts. Indeed ■ jj it was the work the Savior loved to do. We have more instances B J of His personal work recorded in the Gospels than of His preach- j I ing- | The one who is above personal wrok is above his Master.
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