u not spoken to me about my soul?" Said the
Christian student, "I thought you did not care for me to do so." The
young man replied, "Why, that is the very reason I roomed with you, and
there has never been a day for these two years that you could not have
done so."

Let Christian students set out to win some trophies among their friends
and room-mates for Christ. The results of faithful personal work may not
be immediate or apparent, but the blessed Spirit of God will water the
seed. For thirteen months a college student prayed for and urged a
fellow-student to surrender to Christ, and died without seeing any
result of his efforts. But the seed was faithfully sown, and the young
man was afterwards converted, and became Bishop Hannington, the martyr
bishop of Africa.

STUDY XXVII.

MEETING OBJECTIONS.

Memory Verse: "For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your
adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist."--(Luke xxi,
15.)

Scripture for Meditation: John ix, 1-41.

The zealous personal worker will be met by objections; but it must be
remembered that these objections are often given for the sake of
argument, and often for the sake of something to say. They should be
squarely met, however, and answered; and the best way to answer such is
by Scripture. There is not an objection advanced by the unconverted that
can not be met and overcome by some passage of Scripture. Just as Jesus
in the wilderness met the tempter's arguments with "It is written," so
we may meet every argument of the objector with the Word.

A faithful study of Christ's conversations with seeking souls, such as
Nicodemus and the rich young man, will also be helpful.

Below are some of the objections usually given, with the Scripture
references that may be used to meet them. This arrangement of texts is
taken from "Personal Work," by S.M. Sayford, by consent of the
publishers:

"I am good enough." (Gen. vi, 5; Ps. li, 5-7; Luke xviii, 19.)

"I am as good as most Christians." (Rom. xiv, 10-12; 2 Cor. v, 10; Rev.
xx, 11; xii, 15.)

"I have never done anything really bad." (Luke xvi, 15; James ii, 10.)

"I can not give up my pleasures." (Eccl. ii, 1; xi, 9; Ps. xvi, 11.)

"I know I shall fail." (John vi, 37; 2 Tim. i, 12; iv, 18.)

"I can not now, but will some time." (Luke xiv, 17; Acts xxiv, 25; James
iv, 13, 14; Luke xii, 19, 20.)

"I am too great a sinner." (Luke v, 32; xix, 10; 1 Tim. i, 15.)

"My day