"Why must a man believe in Christ to be saved?" (John xiv, 6; Acts iv,
12; Gal. ii, 16; Rom. iii, 23, 26.)

"How may I know I am forgiven?" (Ps. xxxii, 5; Prov. xxviii, 13; 1 John
i, 7-9.)




STUDY XXVIII.

NO EFFORT IN VAIN.

Memory Verse: "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."--(Isa.
lv, 11.)

Scripture for Meditation: John iv, 36; 1 Cor. xv, 58.


"Some day I hope you will preach the gospel," said an aged minister to a
little boy in England. That boy became Charles H. Spurgeon. That great
soul-winner, Mark Guy Pearse, says that when he was a boy his father
took him to see a saintly old lady, who laid her hand upon his head,
saying, "God bless the boy, and make him a minister." Mr. Pearse says
that, through this aged woman, God called him to the ministry.

In a college chapel in Pennsylvania a Christian layman sat down beside a
boy and talked to him about Christ. That boy became Alfred Cookman,