way from Bethlehem to Calvary his life was a constant denial of self.
The early Church followed their Master. They were ready to sacrifice
all. Men sold their fields and houses for the work's sake. They counted
nothing too good for sacrifice, even to life itself; and many went
gladly to the arena and the fiery stake rather than be untrue to their
Lord. As long as the early Christian Church maintained this spirit, she
went from victory to victory. Nothing could withstand her progress. And
when the followers of Jesus Christ in this twentieth century shall again
put on the beautiful garments of self-sacrifice, the Church will become
invincible.

There is now a great opportunity for men and women to sacrifice, in
personal liberty, in popularity, in social standing, and personal
comfort, for the sake of the perishing multitudes. None are too poor,
none too old, to do something to win souls.

An aged widow, who had all her money invested in a farm in a
drouth-stricken part of the West, found herself almost penniless. She
was compelled to find shelter in a Refuge Home. At first she was
discouraged and heart-broken; but God put upon her heart the multitudes
of perishing women in India. She tried to occupy her mind piecing a
quilt. This she sold, and the money was sent to India. Then she made
another for Africa, then another for Japan, until now, in six years,
she has given four hundred dollars to home and foreign missions, and has
six people at work as her substitutes in foreign lands. And she says, "I
was surely called of God to teach that no one is too poor to give to
missions, or too old to work for God and souls."

A young man, twenty-four years old, working on a farm for twenty dollars
a month and board, has, in nineteen months, sent six substitutes, and