Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11

Standing as they do tall even among
giants. Daniel and John represent in their
own lives the highest type OF life and
service and to them as to none else has
been given the privilege OF lifting the
curtain that wells the future that the
faithful church may see the triumph Of
its founder; the coronation of the King Of
Kings.
Three thoughts are here.
L. The place of personal evangelism in
the saving of the world. The choicest
fruit Is always the hand-rickod fruit. No
where Is this more true than in soul
winning. The thousands may come under
the spell of Pentecost. TO swear allegiance
to the cause of Christ: but the choice
leaders in His army. the great soul win
ners, have been chosen by Him or
brought to Him in ones and twos: hand
brought. The story Is ever the same No
sooner does Andrew feel the JOY of COM
partnership with the King than he must
needs bring Simon; and Philip no sooner
realizes that the teacher from GaliIee IS
! the worlds Redeemer but he must
hasten to Nathaniel with the glad cry
I'VE have found Him Paul the lone
convert of the Damascan way. finds
Timothy; Aquilla and Priscilla find Apo.-
, los, and thus the choice spirits of Chris
tian history have come to know the
Christ as some one has made them the
special object of their solicitude. No
wonder DR.. Peck. the great reviNalist, has
said: IF / had to win a thousand souls
in order to save my own, and had to
choose between pulpit effort or personal
work, l should select the personal meth
cd as the quickest and most certain way
,. The threefold CALL There arc three
active forces of entreaty named in this
text from Revelation, three Comes
First. there is the Spirits silent Come.
Always and everywhere the Holy Spirit
speaks to the hearts of men, pleading
with that which Is best in them and urg-
ing them to open the door of their hearts
TO the Heavenly Guest. Second, there is
the church's ceaseless Come This out
cry against the church which we so
often hear is not the wall of the injured
OF the honest protest of the sincere, but
is largely the angry clamor or those
whose lives are shamed by the righteous
ness for which the church has always
stood We hear few protests against the
church from those whose lives stand four
square with the word and will Of God; and
the church is ceaselessly crying to the
bruised and bleeding victims OF sin. to
hearers" joyful Come Since the hour
when the first soul fell under the thrall of
the Man of Galilee until this day SO soon
as the God-given peace rests on his heart
the feast OF love. This threefold call
is ringing through the world today as
| never before, and no one need go astray
| or stand outside OF Mercy's gate for
| lack of invitation to come in.
| 3. The glory of soul winning. There
| is a joy, deep and unspeakabie. that even
the most modest hero feels when he
| thinks of the fruit Of his heroism, the
lives that have been saved, the bereave-
ments prevented, the happiness conserv-
/ ed And when his task has been a
| spiritual task, and his salvage a human
soul. this JOY IS shared By spirits round
the throne. and in the great beyond when
we shall see cast UP the strict accounts
Of time the brightest stars must fade be-
fore the luster Of the jewels given to
those who led from darkness unto light
the straying feet OF men.