. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . SHALL I PRAY WITH YOU? 444 A WRETCHED COMPANY with his class in their sorrows. So did the Master. He laidIds hands on the afflicted. We read more about His healing the sick, curing diseases, and cleansing lepers than we do ofHis preaching. He went among the people and laid Hishands on them, and as Christian people we should follow Hisexample. I was once asked to speak to an audience of the most mis-erable outcasts that the eye of man ever rested upon. Themeeting was held in aloft, and there wereabout eight hundred. \Mjmm MY AUDIENCE OF
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . SHALL I PRAY WITH YOU? 444 A WRETCHED COMPANY with his class in their sorrows. So did the Master. He laidIds hands on the afflicted. We read more about His healing the sick, curing diseases, and cleansing lepers than we do ofHis preaching. He went among the people and laid Hishands on them, and as Christian people we should follow Hisexample. I was once asked to speak to an audience of the most mis-erable outcasts that the eye of man ever rested upon. Themeeting was held in aloft, and there wereabout eight hundred. \Mjmm MY AUDIENCE OF OUT< outcasts present, — forlorn, hopeless, homeless, ragged, mise-rable. The very stench of the audience was sickening. Therewere a few ladies present — running the risk of infection —who came to sing a few Snnday-scliool hymns. There weregentlemen there to read passages of Scripture and expoundthem in language simple and appropriate. Some were presentto tell them lively stories, each having its moral, and othersto sing their hymns. It seemed as if no impression was mathupon the audience. They sat. many of them with folded hands,and listened stolidly. Why did they come? Why are theyhere? Why do they sil so si ill thai you could hear a whisper ? GIVING A SON TO JESUS. 445 Because every one of them knew that if they remained in thehall for one hour, and behaved themselves, they would get aloaf of bread as they went out. Oh, that is using wrong means altogether to bringmen under the gospel. Is it ? Feed them with the breadthat perisheth, if by that m
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