disciples did was "personal work?" Some of our Lord's greatest sermons
were preached to one person. The apostles were all won individually.
Turn to your Bible now, and read the account of the visit of Nicodemus
to Christ, and of the meeting with the woman of Samaria at the well. If
you take the time to follow this theme through the Gospels and through
the Acts of the Apostles, you will be sure to see that the work of
winning souls for Christ by personal effort is the work of every
Christian.

And a conviction of this is the greatest need of the Church to-day. It
is the key to the twentieth-century revival. The world would be
evangelized in this generation did each professing Christian win only
one soul each year for Christ; and the great social and labor problems
of the day would be speedily solved were the great Christian Church
actively engaged in leading men and women to Jesus of Nazareth. Mightier
than the influence of great sermons and fine music and splendid ritual
is the influence of a life consecrated to personal effort in seeking the
lost.

That remarkable soul-winner, Dr. J.O. Peck, now translated, said: "So
great is my conviction of the value of personal effort, as the result of
a lifework of winning souls, that I can not emphasize the method too
strongly. If it were revealed to me from heaven by the archangel Gabriel
that God had given me the certainty of ten years of life, and that as a
condition of my eternal salvation I must win a thousand souls to Christ
in that time; and if it were further conditioned to this, that I might
preach every day for the ten years, but might not personally appeal to
the unconverted outside the pulpit; or that I might not enter the pulpit
during these ten years, but might exclusively appeal to individuals, I
would not hesitate one moment to make the choice of personal effort as