p. 11 | SOUL-WINNING by H. A. Bridgman

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 10, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 39.

SOUL-WINNING.

By H. A. Bridgman

THESE are not days when men wear their hearts on their sleeves. They must be sought patiently, tenderly, persistently. "The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." The divine search preceded the divine sacrifice. Men ought to understand that we are now after their souls. We ought not to be afraid to avow our steady intention to win them for Christ.

Some souls are shy. They evade the gaze of the public. They have gotten into out-of-the-way places; they may have wandered thither as did the witless sheep, through no fault of theirs. They may have slipped into a corner out of the view of every one. We need to be circumspect as well as zealous, delicate as well as persistent, in our search after these shy, shrinking souls. We shall have to go more than half way in order to find them. We may have to overcome many an obstacle, to light every lamp whose gleam we can bring to bear upon the darkness. But the souls are still precious; they have the stamp of the divine valuation upon them. But it is our task to approach them so lovingly and persuasively that they shall be glad to be borne back on our shoulders to the safe lodging, and never to stray away from their home in God.—Rev. H. A. Bridgman.