Dr. T.L. Cuyler went to make his first call on a rich merchant. It was a
cold winter evening, and as the door was opened when the minister was
leaving, a cold, piercing gale swept in. Dr. Cuyler said, "What an awful
night for the poor!" The merchant went back and brought a roll of
bank-bills, saying, "Give these to the poorest people you know." Some
days after, Dr. Cuyler wrote him, telling him how his bounty had
relieved many poor, and then added, "How is it that a man so kind to his
fellow-creatures has always been so unkind to his Savior as to refuse
him his heart?" That sentence touched him. He sent for the minister to
talk to him, was converted, and told Dr. Cuyler that he was the first
person in twenty years who had spoken to him about his soul.

Do not allow letter-writing to excuse you from direct personal work; but
watch for opportunity to write, as well as speak, that "by all means you
may save some."




STUDY XXIV.

TRACTS AND BOOKS.

Memory Verse: "And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me; and,
lo, a roll of a book was therein."--(Ezek. ii, 9.)

Scripture for Meditation: Eccl. xi, 1; 1 Tim. iv, 7-16.