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of it, the same man may, at the same moment, be found- 

 ing an academy among the Mormons, teaching the New 

 Mexicans, building a home missionary church in Dakota, 

 translating the Scriptures in Africa, preaching the gospel 

 in China, and uttering the precepts of ten thousand 

 Bibles in India. It is the modern miracle worker; it 

 has a wonderful multiplying and transforming power. 

 Sarah Hosmer, of Lowell, though a poor woman, supported 

 a student in the Nestorian Seminar}^, who became a 

 preacher of Christ. Five times she gave fifty dollars, 

 earning the money in a factor^', and sent out five native 

 pastors to Christian w^ork. When more than sixty years 

 old, she longed to furnish Nestoria with one more 

 preacher of Christ; and, living in an attic, she took in 

 sewing until she had accomplished her cherished purpose. 

 In the hands of this consecrated woman, money trans- 

 formed the factory girl and the seamstress into a mission- 

 ary of the Cross, and then multiplied her six-fold. God 

 forbid that I should attribute to money power which 

 belongs only to faith, love, and the Holy Spirit. In the 

 problem of Christian work, money is like the cipher, 

 worthless alone, but multiplying many fold the value 

 and effectiveness of other factors. 



In the preceding chapter has been set forth the won- 

 derful opportunity enjoyed by this generation in the 

 United States. It lays onus a commensurate obligation. 

 We have also seen (Chap. X.) that our wealth is stupen- 

 dous. If our responsibility is without a precedent, the 

 plenitude of our power is likewise without a parallel. 

 Is not the lesson which God would have us learn so plain 

 that he who runs may read it? Has not God given us 

 this matchless power that it may be applied to doing 

 this matchless work? 



The kingdoms of this world will not have become the 

 kingdoms of our Lord until the monej^ power has been 

 Christianized. "Talent has been Christianized already 

 on a large scale. The political power of states and king- 

 doms has been long assumed to be, and now at least 

 really is, as far as it becomes their accepted office to 



