ot pitching into them more savagely; for not, in fact,
taking them by the "cuff" of the neck and dragging them into the
kingdom of God. I speak now of our countrymen and foreigners. As
regards heathen, they too shall stand revealed; and their mud gods
also, and rotten superstitions, shall stand revealed: how then
shall we feel when they shall look at us and blame us for not
waking them up more vigorously? An infidel has said that if he
could believe that men's future state depended at all upon what was
done in this life, he would let nothing hinder him from being up
and at men. He would be content to be counted a madman--anything,
if only he could do anything to make men's state better in the
world to come. (I wish these Chinamen would shut up; I came here to
meet Mongols, and I am like to be flooded out by Chinamen whose
language I only half understand.)

'Now, _we believe_: how much do we do? Are there not some men whom
we might stir up who now escape? Could we do more? Are not souls
valuable enough for us to face anything if only we can save some?
Let us look to the end, or rather let us look at the present. In
the room in which I now write (the Chinamen have gone) is Jesus,
where you read this is Jesus: He stands and looks to us. He has
given up the clean heaven, and walked here and lived among dirt and
poverty, in solitude, misunderstood, without one intelligent
friend; He has borne the scorn of men, He has been put to the
horrible and shameful death of the cross, _all to save us_ and
others. We trust Him, He saves us; and all He asks is that we
should tell men about what He has done; and is there one man we
meet to whom we shall not speak? shall Christ look to us in vain to
declare simply what He has done? Perish the thought! Whatever may
be between us and speaking to men, let us go through it. If it be a
foreign language, remember Christ lived thirty years in
preparation. If it be hardship, cold, poor food, scorn, slight,
deaf ears--never mind, go ahead. Christ looks to us to go ahead, or
_come_ ahead, for He has gone through it all. Trouble, hardship,
trial, suffering,--all will soon pass and be done. And is there a
trouble or hardship we have yet surmounted for Christ's sake that
does not seem sweet to look back on? Then, come what likes, l