doubt it? I shall remain at my post." Now, we believe the same word of the "Gentleman of the most sacred honor," One that we can trust. And if we do trust and do obey Him, we shall save our Church alive and advance-conquering and to conquer.

FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP

SHERWOOD EDDY, M. A., NEW YORK

A GREAT challenge has been presented to us. I was deeply interested in the last speech. You have to go out and put up the challenge of personal evangelization. The other day a man entered the office of the president of the Quaker Oats Company. He was not a Christian. He wanted to borrow thirty million dollars to invest in his business to increase his capital. Mr. Crowell said to him: "You ask us to trust you for thirty million? You are not even a Christian." "I have not come here to talk of that," the man replied. "You are honest," said Mr. Crowell, "but you have not been tempted to the full. You have brought several letters of introduction, but let us put business aside for a while. Come up to my private room." The two men knelt there in prayer, and before the visitor left he had given his life to Christ. He went back to his own place of business and converted his partner. Eventually he won seventy-five souls for Christ. Later I was calling on Mr. Crowell one day, and inquired of him: "Is it true that that man made seventy-five converts?" "Yes," he answered. Mr. Crowell was a witness for Christ.

How many of us have won a man in the year that has just ended? How many of us have spoken to men about Christ this month? How many are praying by name for anybody? Here is a challenge for personal evangelization. Why shouldn't you do at once what Wichita is doing? Why shouldn't you and I do what Mr. Crowell and every true Christian is doing? There is one challenge.

There is a challenge of great world-influence. I can hear Dr. Zwemer speaking. It seemed to me I could hear God speaking among two hundred million of the Mohammedan world. We must win them, or our religion fails.

There is another challenge. I can hear that boy from Japan, struggling with English, making his plea for those fifty millions of Japanese. Did you hear that other boy, struggling with English, making his plea for those four hundred millions in China?

Did you hear that word from India? I was there in the famine of 1900. The fields were burned like brick. Wells were empty; the cattle were dying in the streets. Leaves were torn from the

trees to feed the cattle; then the trees were cut down for fuel, and at last that was gone. I saw fathers with trembling knees, too weak to hold the plow; mothers with crying children, with no nourishment to give them; five millions lying down to die, and fifty millions hungry! All this was only the outward type of the great heart-need of those three hundred millions-the famine of souls, the souls of those thousands of men! Already more than five thousand -a larger number than can be held in that great hall-have gone to the field. This movement will furnish the men. Will you send them? There is a challenge of a world-need. There is a challenge of God's work, and our Lord said: "Render the account of thy stewardship." You and I may hear that word some day, not in parable, but from Him. Would you be ready to-day to render an accounting of your stewardship?

I saw a man the other day at the train whose father was the first person to go as a missionary when the individual support of missionaries began. Each member of that family now has one missionary abroad. That man was the poorest of the brothers, but he is giving very cheerfully of his income to the Kingdom. He said: "This is the first time in twenty years that the banks won't let us have any money. We are hard up, but I am sending them five thousand dollars. It will come a little late. I hope that this will be the last time that our family"-here the board secretary thought "Have they been crowded too far? Has his patience given out?" But the man continued: "I hope it will be the last time that our family will have to postpone doing this." He added: "Men think I am fond of money." Tears came to his eyes. "I never will lay up another dollar on earth. My income last year was so much, my expenses were so much; I gave away the rest." He gave last year a large part of his income to mission work.

I am always reluctant to speak of anything that I do, because there is so much that I have left undone, but I remember that when my father died, about twenty years ago, I had been oppressed by a feeling of my own lack in good stewardship. When he died, I proposed to the family that we agree-mother and the three boysthat, God helping us, we would not lay up another dollar here on earth, but keep the little capital that was necessary for our own personal expenses and give the rest to the Kingdom. There wasn't much left to give, and mother said: "You boys will lose what money we have. You don't know anything about business." But we agreed not to lay up any more, and at last my mother agreed. That was twenty years ago, and virtually we never have lost a dollar. We have had the joy of giving. Every man here is appointed to a life stewardship. Some day you and I will hear the word: "Render the account of thy stewardship." Are we ready? Have we been faithful stewards, and can we meet the challenge to-day with a clear conscience and a glad heart that we have an op

portunity for sacrifice with these men that are going out? John Sleaman heard the challenge at Nashville, and you remember that he went out to found the laymen's movement. Some laymen in this Convention will hear the challenge brought these days, and will go out to witness for Christ to meet the need of that work and to render an accounting of their stewardship that will be well pleasing unto Him.

CALLS TO SERVICE

Freedom Through Surrender to God

Overcoming Obstacles

The Influence of Christian Women in the Foreign Mission Field

What Constitutes a Call to a Woman Student?

The Consciousness of God in One's Life

The Will of God for the Individual