g." That day was the turning point in the boy's
life. He became a man of renown but never a believer in Jesus Christ
as we accept him.

The text also indicates how we should pray, with an eye single to his
glory but with a purpose that cannot be shaken. Pray as the Shunammite
prayed, pray as the woman besought the unjust judge; such prayer brings
victory.

III

Did you ever realize that you were standing in the way of the
conversion of your friends? How about your living? If your testimony
rings anything else than true to Christ you are a stumbling block in
the way of some one.

How about your testimony? In the meetings to which I referred there
came a young woman one day evidently greatly moved. First one pastor
would speak to her and then another, and finally I was given the
privilege. For a long time I could not understand her words for her
sobs and then she said, "I am a Christian, a member of one of the
churches in this movement. I have been engaged to a young man for the
last three years. He was not a Christian. Three weeks ago he was
taken ill and a week ago he died. In all the time that I knew him I
never spoke to him about Christ. I do not know that he even knew that
I was a Christian, and now," she said, with a heart which seemed to be
literally crushed, "he has gone and I never warned him." And the text
means that no one could come within the reach of our influence without
having at least a suggestion made by ourselves to them that we are the
followers of Christ and that we long to have them know him who means so
much to us.

THE MORNING BREAKETH

TEXT: "_Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning
cometh, and also the night._"--Isaiah 21:11-12.

It is very interesting to note that, whether we study the Old Testament
or the New, nights are always associated with God's mornings. In other
words, he does not leave us in despair without sending to us his
messengers of hope and cheer.

The Prophet Isaiah in this particular part of his prophecy seems to be
almost broken-hearted because of the sin of the people. As one of the
Scotch preachers has put it, he has practically sobbed himself to
sleep. A great shadow has fallen upon the people of God and he is in
despair because of it. They have sown to the wind and now they are
reaping the whirlwind, a result which is inevitable. They are away
from Zion with its temple, and are deprived of the view of those
mountai