Memory Verse: "Ye that are the Lord's remembrancers, take no
rest."--(Isa. lxii, 6, R.V.)

Scripture for Meditation: Luke xv, 1-10.


How we are willing to persevere to save our friends from physical
suffering and death! No night is too long to watch, no sacrifice too
great to make, no burden too heavy to bear, that the life of a loved one
may be saved. But should we not be just as persistent in our efforts to
save from eternal death those whom we love?

Perhaps we have no more illustrious example of devotion to soul-winning
than evidenced in the life of Uncle John Vassar. Two incidents, related
by the Rev. Walter B. Vassar, illustrate the perseverance with which he
sought the perishing.

A young man was noticed to come night after night to revival-meetings,
but would slip away before one could grasp his hand. Mr. Vassar felt he
must see this soul, and walked five miles to the farm where he lived,
arriving as the family was about to eat an early dinner, of which he was
urged to partake. After being seated, the face of the young man not
appearing in the family group, Mr. Vassar excused himself from the
table, and hunted through all the farm-buildings where a man might
possibly be in hiding. At last, when about to confess himself defeated,
he walked to the further end of the corn-crib, and there, in an old
hogshead, he found the fellow lying low. He confessed afterward that he
had taken satisfaction in looking through the bunghole of the hogshead,
in believing Uncle John would not find him there. But this "winner of
souls," knowing his opportunity, leaped over by the side of the runaway,