his
fellow laborer. Who knows but one could speak and the other could
sing? Certainly one was the complement of the other. And they went
forth with burning hearts to give the message of Jesus. That
illustration in the New Testament where four men brought the sick man
to Jesus is along the same line. Two men might have failed utterly,
three men would have found it difficult service, for four men it was
easy.

I once made my way into the office of a doctor to ask him to come to
Christ. The meetings were in progress in the church and I thought he
was interested. He received me kindly, but firmly declined even to
talk of Christ and I left him, utterly discouraged. The next night the
man gave his heart to Christ, and for this reason, I believe. We had
made him in a little company of church officers a subject of prayer,
and you cannot pray earnestly for one for any length of time without
speaking to him concerning his soul's salvation. Without having had a
conference four men determined to see the doctor, and they all called
upon him within two hours of time. When the first came he laughed at
him; when the second came his prominence in the business world at least
commanded the doctor's respect; when the third came, having driven four
miles in from the country, he began to be interested; and with the
coming of the fourth there was awakened in him a deep conviction. He
closed his office, went to his home and before the evening hour of
service came had accepted Christ.

We have practically the same commission as the seventy. "As the Father
hath sent me even so send I you," said Jesus to us. These conditions
are as true to-day as in those days in the work of the seventy.

The harvest is great. There possibly never has been a time when more
people are absenting themselves from the church than at the present
time. These men and women are fit subjects for the Gospel. The
seventy went as the messengers of peace, so may we go. There are
troubled hearts all about us, there are those who are in despair, men
and women who are saying, "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, while
ours is the very message of peace. Jesus said to them, "Carry neither
purse nor scrip nor shoes," for their dependence was upon him. So must
it be to-day. Not upon method nor upon skill must we depend, nor upon
the schemes of men, however successful they may have been in the past,
but upon him. In those days the men were sick and troubled