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and so on, and had indicated how they
were to be used in answer to various
objections by the unsaved. I remem
ber we went into an after-meeting one
Sunday evening, not long after she
came; and I saw her go and sit down
by the side of one of the finest young
women in the town; and she asked
her: “Are you a Christian?” And the
honest, frank girl said, “I do not know
whether I am or not.” “Then read
i that.” “But I don’t know whether I
believe that or not.” “You don’t?
Well, then, read that.” “Well, I don’t
know whether I w r ant to read any
thing or not.” “You 'don’t? Well,
then, read that.” After a while that
girl said, “Go back and sit down. You
can not do me any good.” She came
and sat down with great reluctance.
But another woman went, a fine Chris
tian character, a woman of fine sense.
She got up with a queenly walk, and
went over and sat down by the side
of that girl, put her arm around her,
and pulled her to her heart; and I
saw the tears come down her own
face, and the tears trickled down the
face of the young woman that she
was trying to win; and she just said
to her, calling her by her first name,
“How good it would be to see you a
Christian, my dear!” And she replied,
“Oh, I want to be saved, I do, but
don’t know how.” And she said,
“Won’t you just give up, and let Jesus
save you?—that is all.” “Yes,” she
said, “I will,” and she did. Oh, that
was love at work, and it is the thing
that has got to win the world.
We bemoan our present condition
until lots of us have got to believing
that we are almost ready to be buried;
and I don’t believe a whit of it. I
am tired of men talking about the lost
power and the lost piety of God’s peo
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and piety in the Church today as ever.
Why should there not be? I will tell
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er to the train of cars, and the mo
ment that the power is hitched on to
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the thing that it is to move, it all goes
away. Oh, my brethren, what we
want today in our Churches is that
we cease talking about our lack of
piety and power, and hitch up what
we have got, and move something
from around where we sit, and pine,
and sigh, and w 7 ail. Haven’t we got
power enough to move it instead of
waiting and seeking and praying,
holding all-night prayer meetings?
That is all right, provided we will take
what is given us after we have done
it, and hitch it up with something,
and move. A mother came to me in
London the other week, and suggest
ed that we, in the midst of the gigan
tic problems of Christ Church, should
hold a series of all-night prayer meet
ings. I said, “What for?” She said,
“To get power.” 1 said, “Is your
husband converted?” “No,” Then I
said, “Let us start at your house! You
hold a series of all-night prayer meet
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My Christian friends, I believe that
we have come upon a time when a
virile, vigorous effort has got to be
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