d will generate a triumphant
confidence in God.

To have faith is to have power; and the little child, as well as the
grown man, may possess this power, and exercise it in winning souls for
Jesus. A little girl who had bowed at the altar and given her heart to
God, pulled the pastor's coat at the close of the service, and said,
"Will you please pray for my mamma?" "Certainly," said the pastor. And
the next evening the little girl brought her mother to the service. When
the invitation was given, she took her hand and led her to the altar.
That little girl's faith won her mother to Christ.

Faith will give courage for personal work. With a strong, unfaltering
confidence which takes God at his word, we shall not hesitate nor fear
to approach the unsaved and seek to win them to the Savior.

Faith is nourished by the Word. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the Word of God." If we feed our faith upon the Word, and exercise it,
then we shall have the faith of those mentioned in the eleventh chapter
of Hebrews, and we shall prove the promise of the Savior, "All things
are possible to him that believeth."

STUDY XIV.

SELF-SACRIFICE.

Memory Verse: "For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it; and
whosoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find it."--(Matt.
xvi, 25.)

Scripture for Meditation: Matt. xvi, 24; 2 Cor. iv.

The words of Christ, "If any man will come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow me," can not be mistaken. The
earthly life of Jesus was a supreme example of self-sacrifice. All the
way from Bethlehem to Calvary his life was a constant denial of self.
The early Church followed their Master. They were ready to sacrifice
all. Men sold their fields and houses for the work's sake. They counted
nothing too good for sacrifice, even to life itself; and many went
gladly to the arena and the fiery stake rather than be untrue to their
Lord. As long as the early Christian Church maintained this spirit, she
went from victory to victory. Nothing could withstand her progress. And
when the followers of Jesus Christ in this twentieth century shall again
put on the beautiful garments of self-sacrifice, the Church will become
invincible.

There is now a great opportunity for men and women to sacrifice, in
personal liberty, in popularity, in social standing, and personal
comfort, for the sake of the perishing multitudes. None are too poor,
none too old, to do s