ders, rejoicing!" The seeker after souls must
be like his Master. A heart ready to melt at the sight of human
suffering and human need is necessary to successful soul-winning. There
are many whose hearts are hardened by long years of rebellion against
God; whose power of will is emasculated by long years of neglect; and
they will never be saved until some earnest Christian worker shall find
them, whose heart has been touched with the same sorrow that Jesus felt
when he stood on the Mount of Olives weeping over Jerusalem.

J. Hudson Taylor, of the China Inland Mission, tells that when he was a
college student he had charge of a man with a gangrenous foot. It was
his duty to dress the man's foot every day. He soon learned that his
patient was not a Christian, and had not been in a church for forty
years. Such was his hatred of religion that he refused to go inside the
church at his wife's funeral. Young Taylor made up his mind to speak to
this man about his soul every time he visited him. The man cursed him,
and refused to allow him to pray. The student persisted in presenting
Christ until one day he said to himself, "It's no use," and was leaving
the room. When he reached the door, he turned around and saw the man
looking after him as if saying, "Why, you are going away to-day without
speaking to me about Christ!" Then the young man burst into tears, and
returning to the bedside, said: "Whether you wish me to or not, I must
deliver my soul. Will you let me pray with you?" The man assented, began
to weep, was converted. Mr. Taylor says, "God broke my heart, that
through me he might break this wicked man's heart."

Ask now that the Holy Spirit may give you a tender heart, and make your
eyes a fountain of tears, that, with the sympathy of Christ, you may
seek the lost and perishing.

STUDY XX.

BURDEN FOR SOULS.

Memory Verse: "For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ
for my brethren."--(Rom. ix, 3.)

Scripture for Meditation: Gen. xviii, 16-33.

How the great heart of the Savior was burdened for the lost! See him
standing on Olivet and weeping as he said: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou
that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee,
how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen
gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"

Where there is no real soul-burden for sinners, there will be no
revival. The early Church travailed in pain f