Christian herald and signs of our times . to say with right emphasisand intonation and power that one word— Come ! That man who has such efficiencyin Christian work, and that woman who has such power to persuade people to quit thewrong and begin the right, went through aseries of losses, bereavements, persecutionsand the trials of twenty or thirty years beforethey could make it a triumph of grace everytime they uttered the word Come. You must remember that in many cases our Come has a mightier Come to conquerbefore it has any effect at all. Just give me theaccurate census, the statistics, of h
Christian herald and signs of our times . to say with right emphasisand intonation and power that one word— Come ! That man who has such efficiencyin Christian work, and that woman who has such power to persuade people to quit thewrong and begin the right, went through aseries of losses, bereavements, persecutionsand the trials of twenty or thirty years beforethey could make it a triumph of grace everytime they uttered the word Come. You must remember that in many cases our Come has a mightier Come to conquerbefore it has any effect at all. Just give me theaccurate census, the statistics, of how many aredown in fraud, in drunkenness, in gambling, inimpurity, or in vice of any sort, and I will giveyou the accurate census or statistics of howmany have been slain by the word Come. Come and click wine-glasses with me at thisivory bar. Come and see what we can winat this gaming table. Come, enter with methis doubtful speculation! Come with meand read those infidel tracts on Christianity. Come with me to a place of bad Wreck of the Princess Alice. Come with me in a gay bout through under-ground New York. If in this city there aretwenty thousand who are down in moral char-acter, then twenty thousand fell under the[lower of the word Come. I was reading of awife whose husband had been overthrown bystrong drink, and she went to the saloon wherehe was ruined, and she said : Give me backmy husband. And the bartender, pointing toa maudlin and battered man drowsing in thecorner of the bar-room, said : There he is ;Jim, wake up ; heres your wife come for the woman said : Do you call that myhusband ? What have you been doing withhim ? Is that the manly brow ? Is that theclear eye ? Is that the noble heart that I mar-ried? What vile drug have you given him thathas turned him into a fiend ? Take your tigerclaws off of him. Uncoil those serpent foldsof evil habit that are crushing him. Give meback my husband, the one with whom I stoodat the altar ten years ago. G
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