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clung to. In willing consecration you are to enter on 

 your life work. 



This, again, implies prayer. It was my privilege to 

 be at the Conference at Northfield at which the Student 

 Movement for Missions had its origin. Men were first 

 deeply moved at a meeting addressed by ten young men, 

 some sons of missionaries, some natives, representing 

 ten missionary lands. At that historic meeting, when 

 D. L. Moody called for one speaker, Robert Wilder, to 

 speak for India, there was no response. Neither on 

 platform nor floor was he to be found. When sought 

 in the waiting-room behind the platform he was dis- 

 covered there upon his knees, oblivious of the passage 

 of time. The movement thus cradled in prayer evoked 

 a similar spirit of prayer for guidance from the 

 great body of students present. For the next fortnight 

 men were to be seen in groups in the rooms, and out 

 alone upon the hills, in prayer, until Mr. Moody said 

 he had witnessed nothing approaching it in power dur- 

 ing his life. In order that this problem of the country 

 church may be solved men must give themselves to the 

 ministry for the country in that same spirit of prayer. 



But those who know best how to read aright the 

 signs of the times are clearly of opinion the literature 

 of service that is springing strong and full from the 

 heart of the church to-day being their best evidence 

 that the Church of Christ is ready to go forward, it may 

 be to her Gethsemane, but certainly to her glory. 



I know of a land that is tinged with shame, 



Of hearts that faint and tire; 

 And I know of a name, a name, a name 



Can set that land on fire. 

 Its sound is a brand, its letters flame, 

 Yea, I know of a name, a name, a name, 



Will set this land on fire. 



