"A college professor who was noted among his fellow-teachers for his
habit of addressing young men upon their personal relations to Christ,
was asked by one of his fellow-professors, 'Do they not resent your
appeals as an impertinence?' He replied: 'No! Nothing is of such
interest to any man as his own soul and its condition. He will never
resent words of warning or comfort if they are prompted by genuine
feeling. When I was a young man, I felt as you do. My wife's cousin, a
young fellow not yet of age, lived in our house for six months. My dread
of meddling was such that I never asked him to be present at family
worship, or spoke to him on the subject of religion. He fell into the
company of a wild set, and was rapidly going to the bad. When I reasoned
with him I spoke of Christ. "Do you call yourself a Christian?" he
asked, assuming an astonished look. "I hope so," I replied. "But you are
not. If you were, he must be your Best Friend. Yet I have lived in your
house for six months, and you have never once named his name to me; no,
he is nothing to you!" I have never forgotten the rebuke.'"




STUDY III.

BY PERSONAL EFFORT.

Memory Verse: "And he brought him to Jesus."--(John i, 42.)

Scripture for Meditation: John i, 35-45.


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