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that very much of my work was not in line with the pattern. Presently He took me into a little room and showed me a very small column of silver, and He said, 'That will abide the test. When the fire comes, that will not be destroyed.' I asked Him what it represented, and He said, 'That represents the little gifts to the needy ones.' 'Inasmuch as you have done it to one of these little ones you have done it to me, and inasmuch as the left hand did not know what the right hand gave, it is precious.' Then He showed me another little column of gold, and He said, 'That also will abide the test. That represents the hours of prayer alone with your Master.' At last we passed into a great room, and I pointed out to Him the elaborate carving in the woodwork. I had spent many months on it, but the Master said, 'Yes, it is well done, but it is wood, and when the fire strikes, the wood, hay and stubble will go.'" (Text.)

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PERSECUTION AND PRAYER

When holding services in a little chapel on the edge of Manila, we had a young convert named Candido, about nineteen or twenty years old, in charge. We had to meet out under the trees, and there was an old man who lived close by where we were holding the services—an old gambler, sixty years old, named Marcelina. Of all the vile brutes I ever saw, that old Marcelina was the worst. He would go at night, and while we were holding services he would throw stones and brickbats. If there ever was a devil incarnate, he was one. We had patience with him for a long time. One day Candido came into my office and sat down in a chair and was looking greatly discouraged. Finally he said: "What shall we do with that old Marcelina? He came in last night and hit one of the little girls on the head with a stone, and she is seriously injured." I replied, "I don't know what you ought to do. I believe if Jesus were on earth, He would pray for that old man." "That is a doctrine which you don't find until you take the gospel," he answered. "With us, it is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and stab the other fellow in the back." It cheered my heart to hear that little fellow say that. He went out and gathered twelve or thirteen young men in a room as a praying-band, and for two long months they met every single night to pray for the conversion of that old man. Marcelina, hearing of it, came up and asked, "What are you doing?" "We are praying for you, that God will give you love in your heart." He rushed out, raving and swearing, and the next time they held a service, he threw clubs and stones. Still the boys did not give up. After that Marcelina could not sleep; and one night he got up when everybody else was asleep and stole like a sentry to where Candido lived and called him out. He said, "Candido, I wish you would tell me what it is that you have which I haven't got; how can you treat me so kindly, when I am a brute to you?" They walked up under the palm-trees and bananas at the other side of the house, and that nineteen-year-old boy and the proud old gambler knelt down side by side to pray. I do not explain these things, but I know what happened that night. Marcelina knelt down and God took away that stony heart which he had had for fifty years and gave him as new and tender a heart as a young child ever had. Later there stood up thirty-seven people for baptism, and when I looked at Marcelina my heart seemed to come into my throat. I knew the struggles that he had gone through, and after I had baptized him, he said: "I beg your pardon; I thought that I was doing good when I threw stones; I did not know any better." Before he sat down I put my hand on his shoulder and said: "Wait, one word more; what must we do to win a fellow man for Jesus?" He looked around and sat down, crying like a little child, and we all wept with him; we could not help it. In a moment he arose and gave this testimony, with the tears streaming down his cheeks and his voice shaking: "Pastor, we can not win men by throwing stones at them; we can not win them by treating them as I have been treating you; we must love them to Jesus." That is what we must do in Latin-America for those people who do not love Jesus; we must step over the barrier and help them and "love them to Jesus." Do they need us?—, "Student Volunteer Movement," 1906.

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PERSECUTION, RELIGIOUS

It was during the latter half of the eighteenth century in Europe that some statesmen commenced the much-needed work of reform. Conspicuous among them was Joseph II of had the right to regulate the religion of his Austria. He went so far as to think he