audience this evening who would
have the courage to step out from this audience and come up and stand
by my side so that I might put my arms around him and kiss him for his
mother?" There was a hush upon the audience; then a boy from the rear
seat started and came to the platform, and with her arms around about
him and her lips against his cheek for his mother's sake, Fannie Crosby
said, "Oh, my friends, let us rescue the perishing." From this meeting
she went to her home, and sitting in her room wrote:

"Rescue the perishing,
Care for the dying,
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave,
Weep o'er the erring one,
Lift up the fallen,
Tell them of Jesus, the Mighty to save."

Years afterward she spoke in St. Louis at a great meeting and related
this incident. Before she had finished a man in the audience sprang to
his feet and said, "Miss Crosby, listen to me. I am a prosperous
merchant in this city, a husband and a father, a Christian and an
officer in the church. I was that boy around whom you threw your
arms." Such an experience as that is worth a lifetime of service. I
wish to put myself on record. I know that many of you are with me. I
stand for nothing in these days that would in the least obscure men's
vision of the power of God, or their vision of the glorious majesty of
the Son of God, and I count nothing worth while except to do that thing
which would mean the winning of a soul to Jesus Christ.

I believe God is giving to some men in these days a vision as to what
may be accomplished if only a mighty work of grace should be given to
us. He certainly is ready to pour out his Spirit upon his own people,
and it is only necessary that we should first of all realize our
weakness, then understand his power, realize that souls are lost and
dying and then know that he is able to save to the uttermost; and above
all to realize that in all ages he has used human instruments for the
accomplishment of his purposes, and realizing these things to see that
our lives are right in his sight, to have such a victory for God as the
world has never seen. For this day we hope and pray and cry aloud, "O
Lord, how long, how long?"

THE COMPASSION OF JESUS

TEXT: "_But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with
compassion._"--Matt. 9:36.

The keynote of the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ was "compassion."
You have but to follow him in his journeys by day and by night to find