f he Price of Winning Souls An Address Delivered before the Conference of Christian Workers, East Northfield, Mass., Saturday Afternoon, August iz, 1906. By CHARLES L. QOODELL, D.D. Paator of Calvary Metbodiat Epia- copal Church, New York City FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York Chicago Toronto he Price of Winning Souls An Address Delivered before the Conference of Christian Workers, East Northfield, Mass., Saturday Afternoon, August ii, 1906. By CHARLES L. QOODELL, D.D. Pastor of Calvary Methodist Epis- copal Church, New York City FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York Chicago Toronto The Price of Winning Souls I am thankful to you, brethren, and to you, Mr. Moody, for the privilege of the hour. I am pleased to learn from con- versation with you that Northfield has been true to herself in the spirit of these conferences, and that you have been placing the first things first. You have talked about the Holy Spirit as the guide in this great work ; you have talked about prayer and the reading of God’s Word as the great exercise for the Christian preacher’s preparation. Now you will not think that I am not in very hearty sympathy with all that has been said, when I present that which should come next, the human side of the work. What shall I do ? How shall I do it ? These are the questions which I shall try to answer. The theme which I wish to present is “ The Price of Winning Souls.” I de- sire, if I can, to bring the matter home in such a way that we may be inspired and heartened for our work. Let us turn to the Word of God as a fitting 3 The Price of Winning Souls preface. “ He called unto Him the multitude with His disciples and said unto them, If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” You will recall that first great humili- ation which the disciples suffered when they undertook to heal the epileptic boy and were not able. I can imagine how the disciples hung their heads when the father said, “ I spake to Thy disciples that they should cast out his dumb spirit and they could not,” and Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up ; and he arose. And when He was come into the house His disciples asked Him privately, “ How is it that we could not cast it out?” And He said, “ This kind can come out by nothing save by prayer.” “ I charge thee in the sight of God and of Christ Jesus who shall judge the living and the dead, and by His appear- ing and His kingdom, preach the Word.” “ Be urgent in season, out of season, re- prove, rebuke, exhort with all long- suffering and teaching. ... Be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry.” 4 The Price of Winning Souls “ And what shall I more say, for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jcphthah, of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, ob- tained promises, . . . and others had trials of mockings, and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword ; they went about in sheepskin, in goatskin, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated of whom the world was not worthy. . . . Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” That is too fast company for our weighted feet to keep unless the Lord God Almighty shall quicken us for the race. If you and I, after having lived a life of indolence, should come up to heaven at last and see over some great archway of the blessed city, “ These are they who came up out of great tribu- lation,” we should be forced to find some 5 The Price of Winning Souls humbler portal or stay outside. I am tremendously convinced of the fact that a great price has to be paid by us for the winning of men and women to God. There are ministers of whom their people say in substance, “ What you are and what you do speak to me so loudly, that I cannot hear what you say. You say things that are good and heroic but you are not working them out. You ask for success, but you will not pay the price which success costs.” We are here to get inspiration for just this work. May God move our hearts and quicken our feet. ! Personal Experience I have been asked to give you, first of all, something of my own experience. There is, probably, nothing which in- terests us so much as finding out what other men are doing and the way in which they do it. I shall waive my own feelings and give you a chapter out of my own life to the end that I may help some one. As God is the searcher of my heart, I speak in great humility, arrogating to myself no knowledge or devotion superior to that of my brethren. 6 The Price of Winning Souls Any personal incidents or statistics that may be given and presented solely that God’s name may be glorified for all the power and all the victory belong within Him. I shall say some things that you will think are too strong. Forgive me now. I shall say some things that you and I might disagree about, but we will not argue concerning them. You will take these things that I have to say, and if there is anything in them worth while you will use it. The rest you will lay aside. Before I tell you about my own experience the best thing I can do will be to tell how I came to get an experience. I was born in Puritan New England. My father and mother were staunch old Methodists and I was brought up with this idea of the ministry : that a man must have a call, a call of God, strange and powerful. I also learned from them that the measure of a man’s success in the ministry was his power to reach and win men to God ; that was the only standard of success. When I was look- ing towards the ministry, I did not have the call in the solemn tremendous form : “ Woe is me if I preach not the gospel.” I went very tremblingly to my first 7 The Price of Winning Souls charge and was not sure that I was in the ministry for a life work. There seemed to be indications that led that way, but I was not satisfied. I said, “ O Lord, if this is my work, give me souls for my hire. If souls are saved, I shall take that as evidence that God wants me.” I wanted to know whether I had the power to reach the hearts of men, or whether I simply had their intellectual approval. And God was pleased to give us some souls as the result of our labour for the first year. I said, “ This may have happened so, but if God will send us a more marvellous manifestation next year, then I shall be certain that I have a call from heaven.” And God was pleased to send us a greater blessing the second year. But like Gideon, I wanted to have another test. I was to change to an appointment in the city, and I said, If God will bless me there, I shall take it beyond all question that He wants me in the rrinistry. The Holy Spirit gave us yet a larger manifestation of His favour and many came into the kingdom. Then it dawned upon me that what I had been asking for three years was, after all, the thing I was to expect every year in the ministry. I went into the ministry and 8 The Price of Winning Souls have prosecuted it with that ever in view, with an absolute conviction on my soul that I was doing the thing I ought to do and that the Almighty would be my suf- ficient helper. I say to His gloiy that in these twenty-five years of my ministry I have never received less than one hun- dred souls a year and in some years many times that number ; and in all those twenty-five years I have not passed a single monthly communion service without receiving some into the church. New York — “ Graveyard of Min- isters ” When I came to New York two years ago, I feared it would open a new chap- ter in my experience. I had been be- fore that in Brooklyn for seven years at the Hanson Place Church. That has been for years our largest Methodist church, and it has had a wonderful re- vival history. When I went there I supposed, of course, there would be a revival — that was the expected thing. But when I went to Calvary in New York, some of my friends said, “ Now there will be an end of the sort of thing you have been expecting all these years. 9 The Price of Winning Souls You will find that New York and Brook- lyn are two different places.” And a pulpiteer, since become a novelist, had written: “New York is the graveyard of ministers.” It seemed a question whether it would be a new gown or a winding-sheet. In October we had a ministers’ meeting at Calvary Church and they asked me to give an address on the subject of “ Pastoral Evangelism.” As I walked up the aisle to speak, one of the brethren whispered to me, “ It is a new field over here. I wonder how it will be at the end of this season. Per- haps you won’t hold any revival meet- ings such as you have been holding.” I said what 1 had to say about evangelistic work, but my brother’s words kept ring- ing in my ears — and I felt forced to add at the close of my address, “ I am under new conditions. What will happen here I do not know, but this is true. God is the same in New York as in every other city in the world. I don’t know ivhat will happen, but I wish to say this : You can keep your eyes on Calvary Church, for something is going to happen. It will be a victory for God or the devil. The thing will not be done in a corner. All the community will know whether 10 The Price of Winning Souls it goes well or ill with us.” And then I said something that will seem to you too strong. “ But before there shall be a failure of God’s work in Calvary Church there will be a funeral in Calvary’s par- sonage, for I simply cannot live to wit- ness a defeat of the armies of the living God. Before God, I won’t — I will die in the streets before there shall be a failure in that great work in New York city.” If the people would not come to church and if they would not heed my message from the pulpit, I meant to toil in the streets of the city until there was no more strength in me. I went into it with the determination to win or die and before God, I would have kept my word. Morning, noon and night I was at it. My prayers and my efforts went together, and I walked the streets of New York every hour in the afternoon until it seemed to me that if all the stairs I climbed had been put on top of one another I would have been a long way towards the moon. I did not sleep much at night. When I reflected upon the matter I re- called the fact that most of the men who have moved the world for God were not good sleepers. Jesus was one of that number. The night knew Him well, the ii The Price of Winning Souls mountain fastnesses and the sobbing sea, and the sweat of His brow was stained by the travail of His soul. If love of power consumed Caesar and love of pleasure consumed Mark Antony why should it be a thing incredible that love of souls should consume God’s min- isters ? I did not sleep well, but on the first Sunday in February I received my pay for all the sleep I had lost, for that day I received three hundred and sixty four people into the church of the living God. I do not know how many of them were converted — I do not even know how many of us are converted. But they bore the evidence of the Spirit in their lives and most of them have kept stead- ily on. This work was duplicated this present year. And this last winter I re- ceived as many as a year ago. As the result of a two years’ pastorate in that city, which is the “ graveyard of minis- ters,” God gave us over and above all removals, one thousand additions, in- creasing the membership from a little over fourteen hundred to more than twenty-four hundred. 12 The Price of Winning Souls The Preparation of Prayer There are two things that I wish to speak of by way of preparation for soul- winning. In the first place I put prayer. It is a great day in any man’s life when he learns how to pray. I had been nine years in the ministry before I understood that secret. To learn it I had to pass through agonies compared with which crucifixion is but in the kindergarten of suffering, but the returns were greater than the cost. I learned that prayer is first of all communion and adoration, and I came to God, not to tell Him what I wanted, but to find out His will and plans concerning me. O it was a great hour for me, and I have never lost its joy. I can think of nothing so blessed as to pray and feel that the heavens are bending low and that, however careless men may be, there is quenchless interest in heaven in our behalf. The purpose in prayer is that we may change eyes with God, to lay our plans at His feet and take better ones from Him. I think Jesus set us an example when He went into the garden of Gethsemane. Under the spell of prayer the cry “ Let this cup pass,” changes to “ Thy will be done.” 13 The Price of Winning Souls “ Into the woods my Master went, clean forespent, forespent, Into the woods my Master came, forespent with love and shame. Out of the woods my Master went and He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, content with death and shame.” When a man can get a victory like that in Gethsemane it is worth his while. There are many of us who do not pray long enough. We pray and run away. We do not wait to see if God has not some great gift for us. Manton, the old Puritan preacher, quaintly says, “ Foolish boys that knock at a door in wantonness will not stay till somebody cometh to open to them, but a man that hath busi- ness will knock and knock again, till he gets his answer.” When we use our telephones we are not content until we hear the voice of the one we seek. There are many who un- dertake to talk to God, but they hang up the receiver before the answer comes. Wait until there is borne in upon your soul the fact of God’s love to you through His Son. Then you can get up from your knees and go forty days, if neces- sary, in the strength of that revelation of the heart of God. With all earnestness 14 The Price of Winning Souls do I give this message. Prepare for your work by prayer. You have the spirit and the stride of a conqueror when you are certain that you have with you the omnipotence of the Almighty God. Devotional Bible Study Next to prayer I put the devotional study of the word of God. Mark what I say, devotional study. The critical study of the Bible is necessary and I have nothing against it. We strengthen and buttress ourselves by that sort of work ; but there come times when you do not look your wife’s letter over to see whether there is any error in the spelling or whether there are commas where there ought to be periods. What we want is the message. There comes a time when one’s Bible is God’s love letter to him, and he wants to strengthen his soul with things that God intends for his comfort. We need further to read the Word with special reference to the thing on hand — the winning of men to God. I call that the evangelistic study of the Bible. In the last month before my special revival work, I try to have all my read- ing of the kind that will inspire me. A *5 The Price of Winning Souls runner, if he is going to run a great race from Athens to Marathon, must lay aside his weights and do every least thing that he can to get himself in trim for the con- test. It is no ordinary struggle that is before us, and the rewards are incalcu- lably great. I read over in the Old Testament something about Joshua, and try to catch a little of the old man’s spirit. I would go a long way to get hold of Joshua’s hand, the hand which held the sword that never felt its scabbard for thirty years and never fell before the stroke of any man ; the man who could say, at the end of his life, that all the promises of God to him had been kept. Then I read a few of the Psalms and pass on to the prophets. I listen to the cry of Jonah in Nineveh and of Jeremiah in Jerusalem, and catch the note of triumph out of Isaiah. Then I am ready to take up the New Testament. There I read about Jesus in His anxiety for men. I think' if there is any one sentence that could be properly used to describe Jesus it would be, “ He had a passion for saving the lost.” So I read that chapter about the lost coin, the lost sheep and the lost boy. Then I read 16 The Price of Winning Souls about Gethseinane and about Calvary. I shall never cease to be grateful to God that I had a chance to go through that holy country. And I shall never forget the day when at nine o’clock in the morning I went out to the skull-shaped hill where Jesus died and saw the very rocks that were rent asunder in the agony of the world when His crucifixion took place. As I looked at them I said, “ These are rock but they could not stand it ; can human hearts be harder than they ? ” I have never yet lost the inspiration that came to me from that hour. It is not far into Joseph’s grave, but the door is open and we hasten to the mount of Ascension. I catch the triumphant note, “ All power is given unto Me.” Then I read about Pentecost — the marvellous uplift of the apostles on that great day, and I remind myself of the fact that every man must have his own Pentecost, and that only he that has felt the tongue of fire is able to speak the words that burn. And then I pass to the marvels that come after Pentecost. The Price of Winning Souls Modern Miracles Brethren, if you have friends who do not believe much in the miracles of the first century, and they are inclined to argue the case with regard to them, let me tell you how you can silence them. Have a few fresh miracles of your own. They may deny the miracles of the first century but they cannot deny the miracles of the twentieth century, for you have the evidence. Now as of old : “ Seeing the man that was healed standing among them, they could say nothing.” Re- porters come to see me, and they say, ‘‘Well, what have you got? Any un- usual event or a marriage that has a story in it that we can write up? ” One Sunday night I saw four or five reporters in our audience sharpening their pencils, and I said, “ I have something for you now, and I shall not feel hurt if you go out of the church to telephone it. On Monday night there were two blind men came into our meeting and I had a box of eye salve which I used, and before the meeting was over those two blind men were seeing clearly.” The boys didn’t quite catch on, and I said, “ Tuesday night there were three lepers came into .8 The Price of Winning Souls the church, they said they were lepers and they looked it. If ever I saw three men that had the marks of leprosy they had them, but before that meeting was over I had tried a remedy which has been good for more than eighteen cen- turies ; it worked, and before the service was over those three lepers were healed, and their hearts were as tender as hearts could be.” The boys began to see what I was after, but 1 kept on and I said, “ The next night they brought in five dead men,” and their hair — the reporters’ hair — began to start. “ Before the meet- ing was over these dead men sprang to their feet and gave testimony to the in- dwelling power of a new life. Now boys, go out and spread it as far as you can, and,” I said, “ if you have any doubt come to me after the service and I will show you the cases, for they are all here to-night.” Talk about miracles ! There they are ! Thank God that we can multiply them any day by the grace of God. Christian Biography After I have read the Bible I read the saints — I am a great lover of Christian *9 The Price of Winning Souls biography. It stirs my heart. I read a chapter or two by way of refreshing my remembrance from the story of Savon- arola in the market-place in Florence ; and a chapter about the man who dared to throw a bottle at the devil in the old Wartburg Castle in the Black Forest. It takes a lot of courage to throw an ink bottle at the devil, whether you throw it all at once or drop by drop from a trenchant pen ; I admire the courage of a man who, really thinking the devil was there, let drive at him. Then I spend an hour or two in Edinburgh with old John Knox crying, “ Give me Scotland or I die.” And an hour with Bunyan, crying out of his prison window, “ I will stay here until the moss grows over my eyebrows sooner than deny my Lord.” Then I read how Finney, giving himself to prayer, lost his strength and gained his power. Then a few pages in the life of William Taylor, hero of India, Africa and South America, and then I always finish with Moody, the man who said, “ There shall be one man, given up to God, to show the world what God can do with a surrendered life.” By the time I have done all this, I am 20 The Price oi Winning Souls fairly ablaze, and the boiler would ex- plode it I did not get a chance to let out steam somewhere. The Price of Service I wish now to say a word to you about “ The Price of Service.” I am looking into the faces of many who have passed into middle life. The dew is gone ; the hot sun is beating down ; you have learned many things about the world by bitter experiences ; you are wiser but you are sadder men. Do you remember when you first went into the pulpit to preach ? You have not quite forgotten how your knees shook as you went up the stairs and how the desire to win men burned in your soul. Then if you learned of a wayward soul you would travel all day to seek and save it. But the ardour of the first experience has paled now ; it comes no more. Preach- ers say to me, “ What are we to do about it ? ” Well, it is a sad hour in a man’s life when his first zeal has spent its force and no new incentive has taken its place. That is the time when many clergymen go into semi-religious things. They be- come agents and promoters, secretaries 21 The Price of Winning Souls and presidents, and try to create a new interest in life. But if you must stay in the ministry there is only one thing for you. You must get a new vision. If any of you feels that he has reached the dead line by reason of his years, I wish to assure you that there is no reason in the world why these years should not be the brightest, happiest years of all your ministry. You ought to do better work for God than ever in the past. But, hear me when I say that in order to make that true you must pay the price in toil and surrender to God. I went out quite early this morning to your little Round Top. There are two graves there. They are the graves of kindred hearts. They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they are not divided. One is the grave of Dwight Moody, the other is the grave of his faithful wife. “ As his part is that goetli down to the battle so shall his part (her part) be that tarrieth by the stun.” That sweet woman, in the sight of God, is to be credited with the victories that came to the stout heart to whom she gave cour- age and for whose work she never ceased to pray. I noticed that this strong man had died at what Oliver Wendell Holmes 22 The Price of Winning Souls calls “ the grand climacteric of life,”— sixty-two years of age. Nature made him a fine animal and built his heart to run at least for fourscore years and ten, but his heart took on the cares of this world so greatly and throbbed so terri- bly under them that it shook its taber- nacle to pieces at sixty-two. Now, brothers, D. L. Moody preferred to die in the saddle rather than to die by the fire. While I have no brief to shorten ministers’ lives I want to say that the best thing we can do is to put all there is of us into this work without regard to years. Let us put a new meaning into the epicurean motto, While we live let us live. I read not long ago the history of the early preachers of the Methodist Church. In the first generation of the Methodist preachers in New England and New York the average length of ministerial service when they came to die was eight years. They burned themselves out in eight short years. They lived so ear- nestly for God and wrought so well that in eight years their lives had gone out by the stress of their toil. But you know, dear friends, that the tables of the ac- tuaries show us that now the ministers 23 The Price of Winning Souls are the best risks in the world. They live longer than any other class of men, and there are people on the outside who say that we ministers are not only under- paid but that we are under-worked. Of course they do not know or they would not say that. I was speaking to some labouring men the other day and I told them I was greatly interested in this matter of “ eight hours a day.” That I was so much pleased with the idea that I had put in two of those days into every twenty-four hours from the time I en- tered the ministry. And those labouring men were not quite sure whether what I said would help or hurt their cause. I am convinced that men need to see that there is no toil of theirs that we will not undertake ; that we will crack our sinews over the hard problems of life, and are willing to share their burdens anywhere and everywhere. Revival Periods I believe in a regular revival period. I never in all my life said, “ YVe will ob- serve the week of prayer, and if then we have a good week, we will continue the next week,” and so on. * say in July, 24 The Price of Winning Souls “ Brethren, we are going to take the month of January for revival services; whether the wind blows high or blows low, we are going to take that month.” I have a notion that God does not need to be importuned to be favourable in our case. He is as much interested now as ever in the coming of His kingdom into the hearts of men ; and I have no ques- tion whatever but that you can have a revival any time when you are willing to pay the price. God is waiting to be gracious. The whole air is full of Pente- costs that have never come down, because there was no place for the cloven tongues. If there had been, Pentecost would have fallen long ago. I know an old minister who said that he had been pastor of a church forty years. He found that the Lord came to that church every seven years. When asked to cooperate in re- vival effort he said, “ It is only three years since the last visitation, and I see no use of asking for a revival for four years.” Are you saying, “ I wonder if God will send us a revival ” ? You need not wonder. The angels in heaven won- der that you have not had one each pass- ing year. Somebody says : “ Do you believe, then, in having a special revival 25 The Price of Winning Souls season and in crowding everything into that ? " I believe in having a special re- vival season. I have held meetings for a week and everything seemed cold, there was no movement. Once or twice I have held meetings for two weeks and nothing happened. But I have never held meetings three weeks consecutively that something did not happen. The power is cumulative, and you and your people cannot keep on your knees before God and work for Him on the streets for three weeks with- out getting some marvellous results. Try it and see. Now, it is psychological and logical for us to give a definite portion of each year to a definite work. If you are going to elect a president, you do that vay. If you are going to advance any jreat scheme, you use that method. Do you say there will be a great reaction and religious interest will decline ? That need not be true. ‘The trouble is many people have one hobby and ride that hobby to death. The right way to do is to have a study full of hobbies. In February my hobby is class meetings. These Methodists here know what I mean. You can see how fine it is to 26 The Price of Winning Souls have that second hobby after the work in January. The class meeting means the training of your converts. In March my hobby is the dispensary. We treat nearly ten thousand free patients every year. Outsiders say : “ I don’t get much out of your religion, but when I see a row of baby carriages, and mothers and babies coming into the dispensary, I say, ‘ That is something I can understand, and if you have a religion that does that sort of thing, I think it is a good kind to have.’ ” So every month I have something of that sort, and I feel that God’s blessing attends us as much in one month as in another. Methods I am asked, “ How do you get the people to come to the services ? ” I will tell you about that. In the fore- noon I get ready to preach at night. I preach every night at these revival services. In the afternoon I start out at half past one and visit my parishioners until six o’clock. I go into the offices of my people and into their homes. I bring Jesus Christ face to face with 27 The Price of Winning Souls their hearts. I have cards that I give out at the revival services. The first Sunday night I had a card distributed indicating interest in Christian things. These were signed by those not members of my church, and not professing Chris- tians, so far as I knew, to the number of one hundred or more. Now then, I had the names and addresses of a hundred people and they represented about eighty or ninety families. They had virtually said to me by that card that they would like to see me and talk about their souls. Wasn’t that a fine chance? I said to them as I met them : “ I have received your card and I have come to talk with you.” I see their cares and learn of their sorrows and their needs. My heart becomes full of zeal for their sal- vation and I bring the matter home to their hearts. Almost every day, either in the parlour or office I have had two, three, or a half dozen promise before God that they would give themselves to Christ and would make a public con- fession of Him, and kneeling there with them we have dedicated ourselves to God. Now, when I went to the revival service that night and ascended the platform, I w r ent up with the heart o* \ 28 The Price of Winning Souls conqueror. I looked the audience over and 1 said : “ Yes, there they are. There will be something done to-night”; and I preached as if I expected something. When the three that I knew about rose to their feet there were a dozen others in the room who looked over the audience and saw these and said to themselves : “ I had no idea that these people were religiously interested; I ought to act myself,” and they came down and filled the altar, and there was joy in heaven. You Must Like Your Job Oh, brethren, is it not a great work ? Is there anything on earth that will com- pare with it ? Some one went into the White House and saw the President with his desk piled high with important papers. The newspapers were full of unkind criticisms ; scores of people were wanting impatiently to press their cause upon his attention and his visitor said, “ Mr. President, what an awful thing it must be to be in your place ! ” but the President smiled and showed his teeth and said : “ I like my job.” I suppose there are many people who would like 29 The Price of Winning Souls his job, but the faithful pastor would not change places with any sovereign on any throne. When the President goes into his office and sees the responsibility facing him, he smiles with his great manly smile and says : “ I am de-lighted to have a chance to do the world’s work.” When I go into the church of God and look over the great congre- gation I would not take a thousand dollars a minute for the joy that comes into my soul when I see sinners for- saking their sins and young people be- coming humble followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. May heaven help you to win many souls, but to do that you must like your job. I was down at Old Point Comfort this winter and the commandant at Fortress Monroe took me into the room where the boys were studying geometry and drawing their great projections. They were solving the -problems of ballistics, and I left them studying there. But in the afternoon I heard the booming of the cannon out over the bay and I knew that the boys were actually doing in the afternoon the thing they had learned to do in the morning. Would to God. my dear brethren, that after this great Northfield 3 ° The Price of Winning Souls Convention, where you have been study- ing these things of the Spirit, there might be a booming of the great guns that should announce to all our land, » The war is on against all evil, and we will not cease the battle until victory is with the King of Kings,” and may God help you for the work ! [After answering questions relating to evangelistic methods for some time, Dr. Goodell said in closing : ] In his great allegory Bunyan tells us how Mr. Valiant-for-Truth went home. Said he : “I am going to my Father : and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive zvhere I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who will now be my rewarder.” When the day that he must go hence was come, many accom- panied him to the riverside, into which, as he went, he said, “ Death, where is thy sting ? ” And as he went down deeper, he said, “ Grave, where is thy victory ? ” So he passed over, and all 3i The Price of Winning Souls the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. Let me say to you, my brethren, “Good-bye, Mr. Valiant -for- Truth ! When the trumpets sound for you on the other side may they be blown by lips which you have taught to pray, and may I be there to hear ! " 33 Dr. Goodell's “ Pastoral and Personal Evangelism ” shows How a Church Membership Increased from 1400 to 2500 in Two Years ‘‘Reveals the secret of the au- thors’ notable evangelistic suc- cess. Watchman Christian Advocate — “The theories have been successfully put into practice in Dr. Goodell’s pastorate in New York City. It would be difficult to find a more success- ful book than this. It is an inspiration, and will give all who read it a renewed impulse and purpose to work.” "Not merely theory, but prac- tical methods proved by use.” Christian Intelligencer Western Recorder — “Dr. Goodell has sounded a new note in evangelism. His pages are not only inspirational, but very practical. He presents methods that have been proved by use. Christian workers, both lay and clerical, will be instructed by its pages.” Religious Telescope — "A well-writ- ten book of more than two hundred pages touching upon all phases of the work that is to be done by a busy pastor. Very few books have come from the press this year whose worth is greater to the average practical pastor than this one. It is inspir- ing and suggestive to laymen and clergy- "A more help- ful book on this subject could scarcely be 1 m - a glned.” Herald and Presbyter men.” Zion’s Herald — “It is a marvelous record.. These pages show very fully the means adopted, the methods tried, the spirit cultivated, the price of power, the kind of preparation demanded, how to draw the net, how to work the Sunday- school. It will be a help to very many, and will lead, we hope, to large ingather- ings this coming fall and winter in many places." Eighth Edition, Cloth, $1 .25 Net. Pastoral and Personal Evangelism By CHARLES L. G00DE1.L, D.D.