Results of Personal Labor for Christ.
WHILE on his dying bed, that eminent Christian, Harlan Page, conversing with his wife who was soon to be his widow, said, as he looked back on his earthly work, “I know it is all of God's grace, and nothing that I have done; but I think I have had evidence that more than one hundred souls have been converted to God through my own direct and personal instrumentality.” Rev. Dr. Walker, author of the “Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation,” gives the following fact respecting the efforts of an aged man who, from being an atheist, was converted to Christ, and repenting of his life of sin, determined to do all in his power to bring sinners to the Saviour. “When converted, one of his first acts, although he had heard nothing of any such act in others, was to make out a list of all his old associates then living within reach of his influence. For the conversion of these he determined to labor as he had opportunity, and pray daily. On his list were one hundred and sixteen names, among whom were skeptics, drunkards, and other individuals, as little likely to be reached by Christian influence as any other men in the region. Within two years from the period of the old man's conversion, one hundred of these individuals had made a profession of religion. We can hardly suppose that the old man was instrumental in the conversion of all these persons, yet the fact is one of the most remarkable that has been developed in the progress of Christianity.”—Am. Messenger.