M. Sayford. Mr. Sayford
became a secretary in the Young Men's Christian Association, and shortly
after met C.K. Ober, then a student at Williams College, and pushed him
out into Association work. Mr. Ober, in turn, found John E. Mott in
Cornell University, persuaded him to enter Association work among
students; and Mr. Mott, in the course of time, started on his journey
around the world, organizing the World's Christian Student Federation.

STUDY XXVI.

WORK AMONG STUDENTS.

Memory Verse: "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did
beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled
to God."--(2 Cor. v, 20.)

Scripture for Meditation: 1 Cor. ii.

No more fruitful and important field for personal work can be found than
in our educational institutions, and Christian students who make
soul-winning a habit of life may win many rich trophies for the Master.
Bishop H.W. Warren, when a Freshman in college, was led to an open
confession of Christ through a Saturday morning walk with a Junior, who
talked to him about his soul.

Dr. J.W. Bashford, in _The Christian Student_, tells about "a Senior in
the Ohio Wesleyan University who was smitten with conviction because he
had neglected personal work for the Master. He intended to be a
minister, but had been indifferent to the spiritual welfare of his
student friends. He offered himself to Christ in full consecration, and
made a list of sixteen friends for whom he felt personal responsibility.
He engaged in systematic personal work with these friends, and had the
satisfaction before the year was completed of seeing every one of them
begin the Christian life. Six of his sixteen friends entered the
ministry, and some of them are even more talented and successful than
the student friend who led them to Christ."

As a rule, young people during their college years are thoughtful and
easily reached; but if not saved before they leave the college halls and
begin the active work of life, they are almost certainly lost to the
kingdom. How often, because of timidity or carelessness, Christian
students and teachers allow this precious harvest time to go by, and
lose the opportunity to win a soul for Christ!

A man, who is now an eminent and widely-known minister, says that he
roomed with a young man at college for two years, and never said a word
to him about his soul. When he was about to leave for home, his
room-mate said, "Why have yo