It is not certain that in every one of these centres we shall succeed; but we cannot too soon make a trial. Our failures in one place may teach us more than our successes in others. There is no need for organizing any new society to send these men forth. Let it be the genuine outgrowth of Young Men's Christian Association work here in America. Let each large city association support its own representative in some foreign field. Let those in one country be joined together under one general superintendent, who will be supported by contributions from all the associations. But I need not mark out to you the plan. Yourselves will see it. As I have indicated, the vast mass of our young men going to foreign fields will be engaged in already existing agencies. We must have some for this new auxiliary corps in the army.

Mr. Moody, may I deliver the third message, which I believe God has sent me here to give? [Assent by Mr. Moody.] There are in India thousands of graduates from our universities every year; hundreds of thousands from our schools. All these know English. They can be reached through the English language. They are scattered all through India, three millions strong. Some have read the Bible. All these have lost their faith in Hinduism, or their faith is wavering. Let me give an incident that will illustrate their position. When out upon a tour in 1879, in a county where there was not a Christian, a native official-high in office, in caste, in social position, and in wealth-sent a message to me, saying that he would like to see me privately for the treatment of an ailment. At the appointed time he came alone to my tent. To my surprise I found that he had some trifling ailment, the treatment of which was dispatched in a few moments. I wondered he had come, until I found that he used the little ailment merely as a

cover. He wanted to talk with me about Christianity, and, Nicodemus-like, he had come by stealth. He introduced the subject himself. After an extended conversation on the character and claims of Jesus of Nazareth to be the Saviour of the world, he said to me in substance: Sir, I am not a Christian. I am still regarded as a devout Hindu. I still perform enough Hindu ceremonies to avoid suspicion. But in my heart I dare not deny the claims of the Bible. I see the power of Jesus Christ in the lives of His followers so distinctly that I cannot deny His Divinity. He must be Divine, or He could not work such a change in the lives of those who become His disciples. He is not yet my Saviour. Caste, wealth, position, family, all, hold me back. But even now I never allow Him to be spoken against in my presence. I have long been reading the Bible in secret. The more I read of Christ and ponder over His life and teachings, and the power to conquer sin that comes from embracing His religion, the more do I feel that in the end I shall have to accept Him at any cost as my personal Saviour. But how can I do it, and bring ruin upon my family?" That was six or eight years ago. He has not yet come to the Saviour. There are thousands in this position all over India. They are not being reached. It seems to us on the ground that a special agency to reach these men is needed. Who can reach them but a man of zeal, of energy, of indomitable will, of inimitable tact, of sympathy, of personal magnetism— full of love, filled with the Holy Ghost?

Dwight L. Moody, do you not hear Jehovah's clarion call to give at least one winter of royal service to India's redemption? In the name of the 650 missionaries struggling on, bearing the burden and heat of the day-in the name of the 700,000 Christian converts already gathered, little folds scattered through the wilderness of

heathendom-in the name of the 3,000,000 young men who know English, but who know not God—in the name of the 250,000,000 of India's people who could be brought to Christ were the 3,000,000 to be converted and go forth as messengers of the Cross, I stand before you in this waking vision and echo the call : "Come over into India and help us."

With a bit of history, that is both history and prophecy, I close. Five hundred years before Christ, India was groaning under Brahminical sacerdotalism, priestcraft, polytheism, idolatry, and caste. Buddha arose as a reformer. With the modicum of truth which he presented to them, teaching them that there was one God, that no human mediation was necessary between God and man, that all men constituted one brotherhood, he fired his disciples with zeal, and they went forth with him to conquer India to their new-found faith. Kings became the nursing fathers of the new religion. A prince of the royal house of Magadhá, with his associates in the work, went down through India, and crossed to Ceylon, and all Ceylon was converted to Buddhism. Other disciples went around the northern end of the Bay of Bengal and converted all Burmah to Buddhism. They penetrated the jungles and climbed the mountains lying between, and entered Siam, and all Siam and its monarch embraced the faith of Buddha. They climbed up the ascents of the Himálaya Mountains, went through Nepál, and all the Nepalese became Buddhists. They climbed over the passes of the Himálaya Mountains into Thibet, and Thibet became and remains Buddhist. They passed on into Siberia; they crossed over into China, and traversed that mighty empire, and two hundred millions of its people embraced their faith. Not satisfied with these conquests, they took the shipping of the day and crossed over to the Island Empire of Japan,

and the standard of Buddha was planted there. Let this history be a prophecy and an inspiration to us. Give us these men that we have asked for, that we may use all the agencies God has put in our power. Then may we, by God's blessing, bring India to Christ within this our generation. The Hindu converts, touched by the Divine fire, inspired by the love of Christ, will repeat the history of the past; but with new zeal, aided by a power that Buddha's disciples knew not. Again will they sweep through Nepál and Thibet. Again will they traverse Siberia to its northern limit, and sweep over northern China. The Mohammedan population of India thus converted, will in their new zeal sweep northward and westward through Arabia and the Turkish Empire, and bring their co-religionists to Christ. The Japanese, now so rapidly and so grandly enlisting under the banner of Christ, having then through their vigorous home missions completed the conversion of the islands of Japan, will sweep across through Corea and on through Siberia, to meet the advancing Hindu army of Christ. And the Chinese contingent, starting northward from Canton and Swatow and Amoy and Foochow, gathering force from the other coast missions and the Inland Mission, will complete the conquest of China, and all Asia will have been brought to Christ. Upon the high mountains dividing China from Siberia will those three armies meet, and together plant the royal standard of King Immanuel, and from those united hosts will go up the shout "Hallelujah! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah! the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ; and He shall reign forever and ever." Brothers, be it ours, each one, to own a share in that hallelujah shout of final victory.

CHAPTER XV.

BRIEF MISSIONARY ADDRESSES.

Talks by Young Men About to Engage in Foreign Work-Their Several Experiences-Mental Conflicts Happily Ended-The Controlling Considerations—Appeals to Fellow-Students—Argument of a Cambridge Man—One Burden Felt by Caucasian, Mongolian, and Indian.

AT a missionary meeting one Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Dr. Ashmore, of Swatow, China, presided. He read the great commission given by Christ to His disciples as found in Mark and in Matthew, and led in prayer. He said: First of all we want to hear from two or three brethren who are going out as missionaries. Just a word whilst the brothers are coming forward. Brethren, you remember that year before last some of God's people met here in this very place and issued a prayer circular. Doubtless that circular was thrown away by many people; but God has praying people. That prayer circular reached a great many hearts-fathers and mothers in Israel. Well, a whole year has passed away. At Mount Hermon came the answer to that union of prayer. You know, those of you who were here last year, how some brothers were asked to go out among the colleges. Two went. They came back. "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, should doubtless come. again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." You know how the Lord blessed them. They are back here with more than two thousand sheaves. Isn't God's hand in this? Well, I see some of them are already