looking after him as if saying, "Why, you are going away to-day without
speaking to me about Christ!" Then the young man burst into tears, and
returning to the bedside, said: "Whether you wish me to or not, I must
deliver my soul. Will you let me pray with you?" The man assented, began
to weep, was converted. Mr. Taylor says, "God broke my heart, that
through me he might break this wicked man's heart."

Ask now that the Holy Spirit may give you a tender heart, and make your
eyes a fountain of tears, that, with the sympathy of Christ, you may
seek the lost and perishing.




STUDY XX.

BURDEN FOR SOULS.

Memory Verse: "For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ
for my brethren."--(Rom. ix, 3.)

Scripture for Meditation: Gen. xviii, 16-33.


How the great heart of the Savior was burdened for the lost! See him
standing on Olivet and weeping as he said: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou
that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee,
how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen
gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"