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two miles away, to the Sabbath-school in the mountains. When she got there she found one solitary young man, and taught him the best she knew how all the afternoon. She never saw him again, and I don't know but the old woman thought her Sabbath had been a failure. That week the young man enlisted in the army, and in a year or two after the old woman got a letter from the soldier thanking her for going through the storm that Sunday. This young man thought that stormy day he would just go and see if the old woman was in earnest, and if she cared enough about souls to go through the rain. He found she came and taught him as carefully as if she was teaching the whole school, and God made that the occasion of winning that young man to Christ. When he lay dying in a hospital he sent the message to the old woman that he would meet her in heaven. Was it not a glorious thing that she did not get discouraged because she had but one school and scholar? Be willing to work with one. Bear in mind the words, "This one thing I do." I live for souls and for eternity, I want to win some soul to Christ. If you want this and work for it, eternity alone can tell the result. May God give us a passion for souls.

When Joshua was one hundred and ten years old, the old warrior lay dying and he called the Elders in Israel around him, and as they gathered around his bedside, he gave these words as his dying testimony. There stand the Elders in Israel and he was the last one of the great leaders alive. Moses was gone, Aaron was gone; he was the only man that was at Mount Sinai when the law was given from on high. They stood around his bedside and heard his dying testimony. How it shined out. "Behold this day I am going the way of all the earth; and ye know in your hearts and in your souls that not one thing hath failed of all the good things that the Lord your God spoke concerning you." Is not that a high tribute? Had not

God kept his word to them? The old warrior is going to rest, and this is his dying testimony: "Not one thing has failed. All things have been fulfilled." That is what the man has said who has tried God. Infidels won't try God, and of course they do not have such a peaceful end as the man who has taken God at His word. Let us look over the six one things. "One thing thou lackest." Do you lack Christ? Oh, take Him to-day! "One thing I know." Do you know you have got Christ? If you do not, do not go out of this house to-day without knowing it; step into the inquiry room and talk with some of the Christian men and women who know they have salvation. Make up your mind you will not leave this house to-day till you can look up and read your "title clear to mansions in the sky." I would rather do that than have a title to all New York. I would rather have some poor soul that I have won from this dark world to Christ come and weep over my grave when I am gone, than to have a monument of pure gold reaching from the earth to the skies. The next" one thing" is the "one thing that is needful." "One is your master," ," "Not one thing has failed," and "One thing I do,"-it is the privilege of each one to have all these "one things" and to know that you have them.

CHRIST'S CALL TO PETER.

I WANT to call your attention this afternoon to the life of Peter. If you will just turn your Bibles to the first chapter of John, 40th verse, that is the first glimpse we get of him: "One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother, Simon, and saith unto him, we have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, He said, Thou art Simon, the son of Fona; thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone." That is John's first account of Peter's and Christ's meeting, the first time they met. 18th verse, we find that they met again, and I have an idea that that account in John was that Peter was called to be a disciple, a follower of Christ; but in Matthew, iv., 18, he is called from his business, his occupation, to become an Apostle and a worker in the vineyard. The 18th verse says: And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And He saith unto them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed Him." One thought I want to call your attention to is this that before a man leaves his occupation, whatever his business may be, to give his whole life and service to

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God, he must be sure he has got the call, "Follow thou me." I think there are great mistakes being made every year by men who would make good farmers, carpenters, and mechanics, perhaps by those who would make good business men, giving up their occupation and attempting to preach, to work for God. Now, I don't know how many men have come to me during the past few months and asked my advice about their going into the ministry. I never advised a man in my life to go into the ministry. I don't think I ever shall, for I think the ministry is too high a calling for a man to be influenced to enter it by anybody. He must get a higher call than from man. wants to get a call from above. If God calls him into. His service, to leave all and become "fishers of men," he won't fail. One reason why so many break down in the pulpit is because they run before they are sent, in fact before they are called at all, and the result is so many failures. Now let us be sure we have got a call before we give up our business to go into the service of the Lord, and one good way to tell whether you have got that call is: Has God used you? I think Wesley had a good idea of it. When a man came to him and asked him if he should enter the ministry, he used to ask him: "Has God blessed you? Have there been any souls converted under your efforts? How is it when you preach; do people go to sleep under it or wake up? Do some get mad and some get converted?" He thought that was a good sign that they had been called to the ministry, for that is what the Gospel does, for it wakes up some and brings them. to the feet of Christ. It is better if they get mad, for then there is some hope of their getting over it and becoming Christians; but if they go to sleep they may make up their minds they are not called. We don't want that.

Now, undoubtedly Peter, after he met Christ, went

about fishing, and undoubtedly he was a successful man at that work. He stayed there until Christ 'came along one day and told him, "Follow me." There is something very sweet about this, that when He called Peter to His service the thing He said was, "Follow me." Christ said to Peter, "Follow thou me," and as long as Peter followed Him he was successful. As long as any of us will follow Christ we will be successful, successful in everything we undertake to do.

Christ never failed in anything He unGod never failed. It is man that is con

dertook to do. stantly failing; but if we get our orders from above and God calls us we cannot fail. It is utterly impossible. So now we find Christ coming along and saying to Peter, "Follow me." And he left his fishing smack and business to go with Him. It says here they "forsook" them. It don't say they took their nets and their old boats, and disposed of them. They didn't stop to sell them, or have an auction of them. They had got the highest call a man ever got, and so they just left all and followed Him. It says in Luke that He gave them one chance. He told them to throw their net in and have one good haul, and when they attempted to pull in their net it broke, there was such a multitude of fishes in it; and He called them away from their nets, and boats, and fish, and they followed Him straightway. And let me say to any man or woman here that if Christ calls you to go into His vineyard, and leave father and mother, you should go; but be sure you have got the call. It is God who will then stand by you, and you cannot fail.

Now, in Matthew xiv., 28, we find Peter again. There we see that he has got into doubts. How many people get into doubting castles? Peter got to doubting, and the result was he got into trouble, as all Christians do when they get to doubting. The Lord appeared to Him walking on the water, and he calls out to Him," "Lord, if

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