evangelists who have won great successes in the
calling of sinners to repentance have almost without exception
testified to having received an "enduement" or "anointing" subsequent
to their conversion. The Caugheys, the Moodys, the Whitefields, the
Wesleys, the Foxes, the Earles, though in some instances they have not
believed in holiness according to the Wesleyan view, have all had an
epochal event after which their work and works were effective and
startling.

THE EFFECT OF PENTECOST.

Pentecost coming to a mission-worker will fill his heart with
enthusiasm and energy, and give him a host of jewels washed from the
mire and shining like meteors. The same experience coming to a mechanic
will fire him with a love for Jesus and a solicitude for souls that
will make him pray and fast and weep and work for his fellow-laborers,
for his neighbors, and for his friends. The Spirit coming to a gifted
singer will cause her to consecrate her voice, like Rachel Winslow in
Sheldon's "In His Steps," so that with holy melody she will reach
hearts hitherto hard and untouched.

THE PASSION FOR SOULS.

One of the conditions of success in soul-saving is a passion for the
salvation of immortal men and women. Full salvation always brings this,
and as long as a worker lives in its plentitude and enjoyment he is
consumed with a burning, longing, panting thirst for souls.

THE GIGANTIC LANDSLIDE.

The ministers of early Methodism and early Quakerism were not of the
sort who congregate in groups and discuss the relative desirability of
various appointments. They did not spend their leisure in jesting,
punning and guffawing, but in praying, studying, and working, for even
their vacations were turned into days of toil. They spent their all in
one endeavor--to save men from a yawning Pit and a lurid Hell. Nowadays
we live in perpetual relaxation and recreation. Smooth, insipid
preachers talk to shallow, giddy audiences, and the whole thing is on a
gigantic landslide. Lord, save! or death and damnation are sure.

THE UNCERTAIN FAITH.

There can be no successful denial of the assertion that real
soul-absorbing earnestness in religion is dying out. We sometimes mock
at the Herculean labors of men like Owen, and Baxter, and Calvin, and
Edwards. But though these men were perhaps more or less legalistic and
at times a little narrow, yet one thing is sure, they made religion the
business of life, and went at it with zest, enthusiasm, and
deter