evangelism, in your continual task of instructing your people in the whole counsel of God no less than in the act of appealing for decision, the message will be alive, throbbing with vital force, imbued with the redeeming energy of the Holy Spirit: "quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword." No one will doubt or question its reality.
It was this characteristic which R. W. Dale of Birmingham noted in the work of D. L. Moody. "He preached in a manner which produced the sort of effect produced by Luther. He exulted in the free grace of God. His joy was contagious. Men leaped out of darkness into light, and lived a Christian life afterwards." There is no reason why your ministry, in its own degree, should not achieve visible results, provided you keep alive within you a sense of the wonder of the facts you preach and of the urgency of the issues with which you deal. Every Sunday morning when it comes ought to find you awed and thrilled by the reflection—"God is to be in action to-day, through me, for these people: this day may be crucial, this service decisive, for someone now ripe for the vision of Jesus." Remember that every soul before you has its own story of need, and that if the Gospel of Christ does not meet such need nothing on earth can. Aim at results. Expect mighty works to happen. Realize that, although your congregation may be small, every soul is infinitely precious. Never forget that Christ Himself, according to His promise, is in the midst, making the plainest and most ordinary church building into the
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