itting, and said he had come from a little town where
there had been a hundred uniting with the Church of God the year before.
And I thought to myself, "What if Noah had heard that! He preached so
many, many years, and didn't get a convert, yet he was not discouraged."
Then a man got up right behind me, and he trembled as he said, "I am
lost. I want you to pray for my soul." And I said, "What if Noah had
heard that! He worked a hundred and twenty years, and never had a man
come to him and say that; and yet he didn't get discouraged." And I made
up my mind then, that, God helping me, I would never get discouraged. I
would do the best I could, and leave the result with God, and it has
been a wonderful help to me.

"We Will Never Surrender."

There's a story told in history in the ninth century, I believe, of a
young man that came up with a little handful of men to attack a king who
had a great army of three thousand men. The young man had only five
hundred, and the king sent a messenger to the young man, saying that he
need not fear to surrender, for he would treat him mercifully. The young
man called up one of his soldiers and said: "Take this dagger and drive
it to your heart;" and the soldier took the dagger and drove it to his
heart. And calling up another, he said to him, "Leap into yonder chasm,"
and the man leaped into the chasm. The young man then said to the
messenger, "Go back and tell your King I have got five hundred men like
these. We will die, but we will never surrender. And tell your King
another thing; that I will have him chained with my dog inside of half
an hour." And when the King heard that he did not dare to meet them, and
his army fled before them like chaff before the wind, and within
twenty-four hours he had that King chained with his dog. That is the
kind of zeal we want. "We will die, but we will never surrender." We
will work until Jesus comes, and then we will rise with Him.

The Faithful Aged Woman.

An old woman who was seventy-five years old had a Sabbath-school two
miles away among the mountains. One Sunday there came a terrible storm
of rain, and she thought at first she would not go that day, but then
she thought, "What if some one should go and not find me there?" Then
she put on her waterproof, and took her umbrella and overshoes, and away
she went through the storm, two miles away, to the Sabbath-school in the
mountains. When she got there she found one solitary young man,