campus the next year was this man. He said he could not get away from the interview, but had become a Christian and joined the Presbyterian Church.

Other men who have made it a practice to talk with men about the meaning of the Christ friendship have borne the same testimony.

My observation proves that men will deeply appreciate your thought of them. A Japanese student at Yale went with his fellow-students up to the Northfield Student Conference. One of our secretaries discovered he was not a Christian and went to him to talk it over. The Japanese student said he had wanted to talk that through with some one, but no student had opened the subject. He said he had even come to Northfield hoping that in the atmosphere of the Conference some of them would talk with him. But no man approached him. “Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool." This is the despair of many a hungry soul. They are about us on every hand, waiting for us to help them into that life which we say is blessed. They will not resent it; rather they are waiting and expecting that we shall say a word.

Some years ago, at Vanderbilt University in a Sunday afternoon meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association, Fletcher Brockman, then a student, was the leader. Brockman tells of how during the service one student asked for prayer. After the meeting Brockman went with him out on the pike for a long walk, expecting to talk with him about his Christian life. But Brockman was afraid and kept putting it off until the walk was ended and nothing said. About a month later this man openly confessed Christ and Brockman took his hand and told him how glad he was for the decision. Brockman said the man looked him squarely in the face and said: "Yes, Brock; but you are the man who would have let me go to hell. That Sunday afternoon we walked together I hoped every minute you would offer to help me, but you did not.”

Meditation: Do you suppose any of your friends ever think it strange that you do not share this supreme interest of your life with them?

STUDY VI. WHY MEN NEGLECT TO BEAR PERSONAL TESTIMONY.

"And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" (Ex. iii. 7-11.)

"And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto thee." (Ex. iv. 1.)

PART 4. PERSONAL TESTIMONY REVEALS THE WEAKNESS OF THE WITNESS.

No man can give a greater message than he really lives. Emerson said: "What you are thunders so loud in my ears that I cannot hear what you say." In our last study we called attention to the fact that a man's life is a part of his testimony. Moses did not want to go back to Egypt because he had left an unsavory record behind. He doubtless feared the people would not follow him because he was a murderer. No man of us can bear his best testimony when unforgiven sin remains in his life.

Personal testimony tests the genuineness of life. Here, face to face with men, all that is weak comes to the surface.

We cannot hide behind the protection of a pulpit or a teacher's desk or an editor's table. We are face to face with life. In that close relationship men can look into our very souls. We cannot hide the weaknesses there. It is this that sometimes makes us shrink from speaking to the other man.

When a man is speaking to a crowd he can use general terms, but when one begins talking to an individual he must be specific. If he has no real experience to relate, he cannot cover up that weakness. Generalities will do for an exhortation, but will never pass for personal testimony.

Personal Prayer: "O God, take out of my life the weaknesses and sin which rob me of power for service."

STUDY VI. WHY MEN NEGLECT TO BEAR PERSONAL TESTIMONY.

"And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me." (Isa. vi. 8.)

PART 5. WE WANT TO SERVE IN' THE EASIEST WAY.

In this day of organization it is easy to get into the habit of doing our religious work by proxy. It is so convenient to send a check to the Associated Charities and expect them to see that all the poor are cared for. It is convenient and soothing to drop a quarter into the Salvation Army kettle just to make it boil well for some poor wretch. How very convenient to put five or ten or a hundred dollars into the Christmas purse which will send coal and provisions to children who would not otherwise have any Christmas.

All this is good, but not if it makes us feel satisfied that we have done our part. The supreme need of men and women and little children is not dinners or coal or clothes. They need sympathy and love and fellowship. They need courage and character. You cannot send these through the mail. They can be given only by contagion of personality. The slow, hard, uncomfortable process is to learn to know the heart needs of a few of these.. Know them so well that you can meet their hunger of soul. Then you will have to give your very soul with your money.

Not a few religious workers are also trying to do their Christian work in the easiest way. They find it much easier to give a public address or to preach to a crowd than to hunt out men one by one and try to lead them into fellowship with Christ. "It requires," said Bossuet, "more faith and courage to say two words face to face with one single

sinner than from the pulpit to rebuke two or three thousand persons, ready to listen to everything on condition of forgetting all."

What we need is more of the giving of ourselves with our Christian work. It is men and not things, life and not speeches, that people need. This is personal work, and will lead others to Christ. This is costly, but it pays.

Not what we give but what we share,

For the gift without the giver is bare;

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three-
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

-Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal."