why we do not? Now the question is, How shall we do it? In II Corinthians iv. 2, we find four great principles to be observed in winning men. First, having "renounced the hidden things of shame," and put away every unclean thing from the life that must be cleansed for this service, let us say: "For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they, back there in college, out there in India, or China, or Japan-those whom I could reach if I stood right with God-that they may be sanctified." Second, "by the manifestation of the truth," not by the refutation or destruction of error, not by argumentation-for you may win your argument and lose your man— but by the manifestation of the truth as it is in Christ. Napoleon chose his own battle-fields; let us choose ours. Our one battle-field is Christ. Third, "Commending ourselves to every man's conscience"-not merely to his intellect, or to his emotions, but to his conscience and his will. Fourth, "In the sight of God"-not in the sight of man, not in the fear of man, not for the praise of man, but in the sight of God. Oh, if with unveiled heart and anointed eyes we could go out to see men as God sees them, and be winners of men!

Here we are to-day, going back, five thousand of us, to those seven hundred and fifty colleges of the continent of North America, every delegation a team that could strike that college like the old "flying wedge" of the earlier football, if only we were a united team. Think of the power of a group of men banded together if filled with the Spirit, going back to the old college or the university! Think of the early twelve! Our Lord left in the world not a book, not a written word, no formal organization; but He left twelve men who had caught His Spirit and who would live and tell the good news. He staked everything on the loyalty of those men, and upon us who should believe because of their word. Think, later, of the twelve with Francis of Assisi, in poverty, in joy, in service, as all Italy turned to them for a living message. Recall those six young students that knelt in the little chapel in Paris, including Loyola and Xavier, and then went out like a flame of fire across Europe, and across Asia, where a million souls bear His name to-day because of those men and their followers. We may criticise their obvious shortcomings when we have approached their zeal. Think of the little group that knelt with Wesley at Oxford, who changed the history of England. Remember again the five that knelt under the old haystack, who rose and said: "We can do it if we will." We are five thousand here to-day because of those five men. Think of the power we five thousand might have if we rose as one man to say: "We can do it, and we will"-an army here in serried ranks, marching with that great unseen Captain of our Salvation as He leads us back to our seven hundred colleges.

I visited a church in Korea. It began with only seven men baptized in a little hut seventeen years ago. In these seventeen years

it has sent out forty-two new branch congregations; it has fifteen hundred members in the mother Church, and it is still growing because, as they told me, "every Christian is a witness, and the Gospel is still good news in Korea." My brothers, it is still good news here and now with us, if we only know it. I have long ceased to doubt that Asia would be won. We shall certainly win Asia, I feel sure of that; but sometimes when I come back here I wonder where we are coming out in America if the laity ceases to witness for Christ. If one branch of the Church, the Protestant, hires a man to do its preaching for it, and another, the Roman, to do its praying, whom shall we hire by proxy to live and to tell the good news for us? There are hearts as ready here in America as in Korea. In Korea nearly every Christian is a witness, because they will not admit a man to the Church until he has gone out to win some one else for Christ. If we were to ask here how many were telling the good news, or how many of us had ever led another to Christ, I wonder how many could rise as witnesses. I repeat, the Gospel is just as good news here as in Korea, and hearts are as hungry.

As I came West on the train the other day, I went back to the barber shop. While he was cutting my hair, the barber said: “I was in a wreck." "So was I," I answered. "I nearly lost my life," he went on. I said, "So did I." Then I asked him, "Were you ready?" "Why, no," he said, "I was not." "Are you ready now? Some time you will have to go; are you ready?" When he said he was not, I asked him, "Why not be ready? You are not far from the Kingdom. Say just two words; say, 'I will,' to God, and you may enter the kingdom of heaven. Say it, man; you have been waiting these thirty years; say it to-day." But he would not.

An hour later, after I had gone back to my berth, he followed me through the train, and said to me: "I can't get away from it. I am going to say, 'I will,' and I say it now with all my heart." Since then, letters have been coming from him; he has been witnessing in missions in Chicago and in New York, at either end of his run; wherever he has been, he has been witnessing for Christ.

There is One standing among us to-day, standing before you this very hour, saying: "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" How much dost thou love me? Dost thou love me enough to tell this good news? "Simon, son of Jonas, feed my sheep."

THE WORLD-STRATEGY OF THE CHRISTIAN CONQUEST OF NORTH AMERICA

Evangelization of the Constructive Forces of Civilization in America

The Vocation of North America

The Importance of Foreign Missionary Work