we sung, "Blest be the tie that binds." It was
a beautiful night in June that he left on the Michigan Southern, and I
was down to the train to help him off. And those girls everyone gathered
there again, all unknown to each other; and the depot seemed a second
gate to heaven, in the joyful, yet tearful, communion and farewells
between these newly redeemed souls and him whose crown of rejoicing it
will be that he led them to Jesus. At last the gong sounded, and,
supported on the platform, the dying man shook hands with each one, and
whispered, "I will meet you yonder."

Very Hard, yet Very Easy.

The hardest thing, I will admit, ever a man had to do is to become a
Christian, and yet it is the easiest. This seems to many to be a
paradox, but I will repeat it, it is the most difficult thing to become
a Christian, and yet it is the easiest. I have a little nephew in this
city. When he was about three or four years of age, he threw that Bible
on the floor. I think a good deal of that Bible, and I don't like to see
this. His mother said to him, "Go pick up uncle's Bible from the floor."
"I won't," he replied. "Go and pick up that Bible directly." "I won't."
"What did you say?" asked his mother. She thought he didn't understand.
But he understood well enough, and had made up his mind that he
wouldn't. She told the boy she would have to punish him if he didn't,
and then he said he couldn't, and by and by he said he didn't want to.
And that is the way with the people in coming to Christ. At first they
say they won't, then they can't, and then they don't want to. The mother
insisted upon the boy picking up the Bible, and he got down and put his
arms around it and pretended he couldn't lift it. He was a great,
healthy boy, and he could have picked it up easily enough. I was very
anxious to see the fight carried on because she was a young mother, and
if she didn't break that boy's will he was going to break her heart by
and by. So she told him again if he didn't pick it up she would punish
him, and the child just picked it up. It was very easy to do it when he
made up his mind. So it is perfectly easy for men to accept the gospel.
The trouble is they don't want to give up their will. If you want to be
saved you must just accept that gospel--that Christ is your Saviour,
that he is your Redeemer, and that he has rescued you from the curse of
the law. Just say "Lord Jesus Christ, I trust you from this hour to save
me," and the m