r us to do,
don't you see how the work of the Lord would advance?

-- There is no man living that can do the work that God has got for me
to do. No one can do it but myself. And if the work ain't done we
will have to answer for it when we stand before God's bar.
-- What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving,
never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold?
Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out an
anything.

CHRISTIAN ZEAL.

Satan's Match.

If you will allow me an expression, Satan got a match when he got Paul.
He tried to get him away from God, but he never switched off. Look how
they tortured him. Look how they stripped and beat him. Not only did the
Romans do this, but the Jews also. How the Jews tried to drag him from
his high calling. How they stripped him and laid upon the back of the
apostle blow after blow. And you know that the scourge in those days was
no light thing. Sometimes men died under that punishment. If one of us
got one of the stripes that Paul got, how the papers would talk about
it. But it was nothing to Paul. He just looked at it as if it were a
trivial thing--as if it were a light affliction. When he was stripped
and scourged by his persecutors you might have gone and asked him:
"Well, Paul, what are you going to do now?" "Why, press toward the mark
of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus;" Take your stand before Him
and ask him as they bring the rod down upon his head, "What are you
going to do now, Paul?" "Do? I am going to press toward the mark of the
high calling of God in Christ Jesus." He had one idea, and that was it.
Look at him as they stoned him. The Jews took up great stones to throw
upon the great apostle. They left him for dead, and I suppose he was
dead, but God raised him up. Come up and look at him all bruised and
bleeding as he lies. "Well, Paul, you've had a narrow escape this time.
Don't you think you had better give up? Go off into Arabia and rest for
six weeks. What will you do if you remain here? They mean to kill you."
"Do!" he cries as he raises himself like a mighty giant, "I am going to
press toward the mark of the high calling of God." And he goes forth and
preaches the gospel. I am ashamed of Christianity in the nineteenth
century when I think of those early Christians. Why, it would take all
the Christians in the Northwest to make one Paul. Look at his heroism
everywhere he wen