t one, for
example, containing the verse:--

And can I yet delay my little all to give?
To tear my soul from earth away, for Jesus to receive?
Nay, but I yield, I yield! I can hold out no more,
I sink, by dying love compelled, and own Thee conqueror.

The mind that has never yet come in contact with teaching of this
character can scarcely comprehend the effect of such thoughts on a young
and ardent soul. This Jesus, who gave up Heaven and all that was bright
and pleasant to devote Himself to the world's Salvation, was presented
to him as coming to ask the surrender of his heart and life to His
service, and his heart could not long resist the appeal. It was in no
large congregation, however, but in one of the smaller Meetings that
William Booth made the glorious sacrifice of himself which he had been
made to understand was indispensable to real religion. Speaking some
time ago, he thus described that great change:--

"When as a giddy youth of fifteen I was led to attend Wesley
Chapel, Nottingham, I cannot recollect that any individual pressed
me in the direction of personal surrender to God. I was wrought
upon quite independently of human effort by the Holy Ghost, who
created within me a great thirst for a new life.

"I felt that I wanted, in place of the life of self-indulgence, to
which I was yielding myself, a happy, conscious sense that I was
pleasing God, living right, and spending all my powers to get
others into such a life. I saw that all this ought to be, and I
decided that it should be. It is wonderful that I should have
reached this decision in view of all the influences then around me.
My professedly Christian master never uttered a word to indicate
that he believed in anything he could not see, and many of my
companions were worldly and sensual, some of them even vicious.

"Yet I had that instinctive belief in God which, in common with my
fellow-creatures, I had brought into the world with me. I had no
disposition to deny my instincts, which told me that if there was a
God His laws ought to have my obedience and His interests my
service.

"I felt that it was better to live right than to live wrong, and as
to caring for the interests of others instead of my own, the
condition of the suffering people around me, people with whom I had
been so long familiar, and whose agony se