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The Saviour at His Work.
'R. NJ. D. COLLINS.


In the fourth chapter Of the Gospel
by st. John we have simple picture
of Jesus winning soul to Himself.
From this we may learn:
lst to Sd verses. The soul.winner
must carefully note the spiritual tenn
perature Of the field. When Jesus
knew that the people were disputing
about baptism with water, He left the
place and went where there was more
hunger for the Spirits work. How Of
ten Jesus leaves the multitudes or the
contending throng for better tenn
perature in which to get at souls
At. We learn we are to improve
every opportunity to get at souls. The
common meeting places of life often
furnish the best pulpits of soul-sav-
ing ministry. He who can only talk
salvation in the pulpit will find fatal
defect in the putting of the Gospel to
human need.
9. The Christlike soul-winner has
no social barriers in his work. All for
whom Jesus died are precious to every
one imbibing jesus Spirit. The false
and stilted social distinctions of life
often leave out some of the richest
heads in life's harvest fields, and en-
compass some of the chaffiest. He who
would win souls must search all fields
with divine instinct for souls every
where. Many of Gods jewels have
been plucked out of the sewers of life.
Out of heart knowledge of the suf-
ficiepcy of the divine fountains he
must appeal to hearts. There is a COM
mon heart-want in the human soul,
however deeply it may be covered up.
He who would touch this hidden fibre
must have the patient search and per-
sistent push Of love out Of pure heart.
The surface tides may all move the
other way, but the depths of the ma
ture will be found to respond to Gods
love.
lila. With great patience he still
bears Oh against the unspiritual misap-
prehensions, and sets forth the soul
satisfying portion of the indwelling
Holy Spirit. "Line upon line,, line
upon line, here q little and there q
little" is still the rule of successful
soul-winning.
1918. The soul-winner must be
deeply and truly conversant with the
experiences of human life. In Jesus
this was often prophetic, but he who
studies the Bible and human nature
faithfully will find the first is a true
exponent Of the other, and using one
as q handbook of the other he will
come to know "much that Is in man."
1920. He who would win souls
must be ready at any time for queries
touching the essence Of divine things.
These will come from unexpected
sources.
1926. Some of these queries are
here sampled The true worship;
what? how? The true God His ma
ture, essence. The revealed Christ.
All teaching and winning of souls
eliminates here in revealed Christ.
How accessible is God How simple
is true worship! The mass Of men
think God is to be approached only by
stilted methods. But here and now,
the desert or city, at home or abroad,
the true worshipers worship in spirit
and truth, and God is 'going to and
fro throughout the whole earth,"
seeking such to worship Him." Let
US "learn of Him who is meek and
lowlyn how to win souls. HE that
winneth souls is wise" May the God
of all grace send forth the Spirit of
His Son in our hearts, for as one has
has said in writing the life of a great
American, "The Spirit in which We
work is the highest matter."-Chris-
lian Standard.