“We have the opportunity now which angels may well covet, that of leading souls to Christ.  This priceless privilege is intrusted to us only for the one brief moment of our earthly existence, and how we should prize it above all things else!

“Consider the fact that one million of years hence, yea, millions of millions of years, your happiness and capacity for enjoying Christ and heaven depend upon the manner of your spending this present vapor called life.  When eventually we are ushered through the gates of the Eternal City, it will then be forever too late for this one blood-purchased pleasure of telling salvation’s story to the lost.

“It seems a paradox that it is possible for one to be a Christian without having a consuming passion for souls.  But in reality the whole matter centers not upon our love for those around us, but upon our love for the Lord Jesus Himself.  When we are in unbroken fellowship with Christ, the natural result is love for those so dear to Him.  ’The love of Jesus is not an absorbing, but a radiating love.  The more we love Him, the more shall we most certainly love others.’  Each new revelation of Himself graciously granted unto His followers only draws us the nearer to Him, the fountain of eternal love, where we drink to our fill and are imbued with an all-consuming desire to carry the life-giving water unto others.

“Nor can we gaze long at the cross, at the cruelly mutilated brow of our Saviour, at His body torn and bruised by the merciless scourging, at the five bleeding wounds, nor can we listen to the cry of His broken heart, ‘My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?’ without being melted with love and filled with a holy zeal to serve Him every moment of our lives.  One real view of the cross changes all.  The things of this life, where we shall be located and how we shall be situated, will have no more effect upon us, if only we may glorify Him.

“Many have taken the first step, giving into His keeping their souls for eternity, but will you not now, while beholding Him hanging on yonder cross for you, give Him your lives as well?  The only life worth the living is the surrendered life.  Time is uncertain, eternity sure.  Now and only now may we prove to Him our love, and know the fellowship of His sufferings.

“I ask every Christian here today, who is willing henceforth to yield his life, his time, his all, unconditionally into the hands of the Master and to go forth seeking those who need help, to arise.”

The speaker, though pale from emotion, calmly folded his arms and looked over the audience to see what the result might be.

He knew that the crisis in the life of his church had arrived, and should the King have the victory, or no?

For a moment there was not a stir.  Then the preacher himself could scarcely believe what he saw.

Dr. Dale, still holding Rosa in his arms, slowly arose, love and determination being depicted upon the hitherto cold and dignified countenance.  The effect was pronounced.  Soon hundreds were upon their feet, while some one started the song: