the sole means to be used in securing the conversion of one thousand
souls necessary to my own salvation."

Dr. Theodore Cuyler once said concerning the three thousand souls he had
received into Church fellowship during his ministry, "I have handled
every stone."




STUDY IV.

TROPHIES OF PERSONAL EFFORT.

Memory Verse: "And he that is wise winneth souls."--(Prov. xi, 30, R.V.)

Scripture for Meditation: 2 Cor. v, 14-21.


Is it not a suggestive fact that nearly all those men who have shone
brightly in the galaxy of martyrs, preachers, and reformers in the
Christian Church through the centuries have been won to Christ by the
personal effort of some consecrated life? Think of some in our own age.

Dwight L. Moody, when a clerk in a store, was visited by his
Sunday-school teacher, who put his hand upon the young man's shoulder
and talked to him about Christ; and Mr. Moody says, "I had not felt I
had a soul till then."

Colonel H.H. Hadley, who has kneeled and prayed with over thirty-five