d and prayed with over thirty-five
thousand drunkards, declares that one of the agencies which led him to
Christ was a brief interview with Chaplain (now Bishop) McCabe on a
railway-train in Ohio just after the Civil War.

Lord Shaftesbury, one of the greatest Christian philanthropists of the
nineteenth century, was won for Christ in early boyhood by the effort of
Maria Willis, a servant-girl in his father's home.

The conversion of Diaz, the great Cuban evangelist, was due to the
faithfulness of a consecrated young lady of Brooklyn. She found him in a
hospital at the point of death, procured a Spanish New Testament, read
to him the words of mercy and invitation, pointed him to Christ; and he
went back to his own country, a flaming herald of the gospel.

J. Wilbur Chapman, one of the most successful pastor-evangelists of this
generation, says that while in a revival-meeting, when a boy, his
Sunday-school teacher touched him on the elbow, and said, "Do you not
think you had better stand?" and that one touch, as much as anything
else, pushed him into the kingdom.

Joseph F. Berry, whose name is a household word in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, was led to Christ by two young friends who took the
young printer to his father's barn, and held a prayer-meeting with him,
which resulted in a glorious conversion.

STUDY V.

THE WORTH OF A SOUL.

Memory Verse: "For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his
soul?"--(Matt. xvi, 26.)

Scripture for Meditation: Luke xv, 1-10.

What is a life worth? What is your life worth? What is the life of your
son or daughter or mother or wife worth? What would you take for a life?
But if the life of a dear one be worth so much to you, what must be its
value in God's sight, who sees to what depths a soul may plunge and to
what heights it may rise? It may be a small matter to you that in yonder
saloon is a man dissipated and drunken. But what if he were your father
or brother or husband? It may be a very small matter to you that the boy
whom you met on the street is puffing a cigarette and wears already
upon his face the marks of an evil life. But what if he were your boy or
your brother? Yet, in God's sight, his life is as valuable as if he were
your boy or your brother; and every soul is of infinite worth.

Jesus Christ set a high estimate upon human life when he left his
Father's throne an