GETTING ACQUAINTED FOR JESUS’ SAKE.
ONE of the first steps toward helping people spiritually is becoming acquainted with them. Just as a man needing a certain line of goods naturally turns first to the brand which he has seen oftenest advertised, so people in need of spiritual counsel will think first of their Christian acquaintances whose attitude is most open to inviting them. We may not see at a moment how a nod, a smile, a pleasant greeting, or a few moments’ chat with those who would otherwise be strangers, can help Christ’s cause; but these repeated expressions of good-will are so many advertisements of the source whence spiritual help may be obtained, and the time is sure to come, sooner or later, when the cultivation of acquaintance will prove a means of leading to Christ.—S. S. Times.