Ask the Important Question.
REV. HARLAN PAGE once went into his school to inquire into the spiritual condition of his teachers. Coming to one of the young men, with a roll-book in his hand, he said, "Shall I put you down as having hope in Christ?" "No," was the answer. "Then," said the good man, tenderly, "I will put you down as having no hope." He wrote in the book and passed on; but the Holy Spirit spoke through the words to the young man's soul, and he gave himself to Christ. A timid teacher, after having pressed home the truth contained in the lesson, "The Friends and Foes of Jesus," said to a young lady, who had joined the class recently, as she held her hand at parting, "Are you a friend?" "I am afraid not." "I want you should be." That was all. But more than a year afterward, that scholar said to her, "Your words that day followed me until I was constrained to be a Chritian." Gently, affectionately, earnestly ask those given into your keeping if they are walking in the strait and narrow way. A single question may save a soul.—Illustrator.