but you came back again, and the Spirit of God came
upon you again and again, and you were troubled. Haven't you passed
through that experience? Don't you remember something like that
happening to you? That was the Son of God seeking for your soul.

-- The Son of God has come into the world to bless us. Look at that
Sermon on the Mount. It is filled with the word blessed, blessed,
blessed. I think it occurs nine times. His heart was full of
blessings for the people. He had to get it out before He gave His
sermon.

-- A rule I have had for years is to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a
personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere empty doctrine, but it is
He himself we have. The moment we have received Christ we should
receive Him as a friend. When I go away from home I bid my wife and
children good-by, I bid my friends and acquaintances good-by, but I
never heard of a poor backslider going down on his knees and saying:
"I have been near You for ten years; Your service has become tedious
and monotonous; I have come to bid You farewell; good-by, Lord Jesus
Christ." I never heard of one doing this. I will tell you how they go
away; they just run away.

CHRISTIAN WORK.

How Moody was Encouraged.

I remember a few years ago I got discouraged, and could not see much
fruit of my work; and one morning, as I was in my study, cast down, one
of my Sabbath-school teachers came in and wanted to know what I was
discouraged about, and I told him because I could see no result from my
work; and speaking about Noah, he said: "By the way, did you ever study
up the character of Noah?" I felt that I knew all about that, and told
him that I was familiar with it, and he said, "Now, if you never studied
that carefully, you ought to do it, for I cannot tell you what a
blessing it has been to me." When he went out I took down my Bible and
commenced to read about Noah, and the thought came stealing over me,
"Here is a man that toiled and worked a hundred years and didn't get
discouraged; if he did, the Holy Ghost didn't put it on record," and the
clouds lifted, and I got up and said, if the Lord wants me to work
without any fruit I will work on. I went down to the noon
prayer-meeting, and when I saw the people coming to pray I said to
myself, "Noah worked a hundred years and he never saw a prayer-meeting
outside of his own family." Pretty soon a man got up right across the
aisle where I was s