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BY
S. D. GORDON
NEW AND REVISED EDITION
CHICAGO NEW YORK TORONTO
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Copyright, 1903, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
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CONTENTS
CHOKED CHANNELS.
An Odd Distinction.
A few years ago I was making a brief tour among the colleges ofMissouri. I remember one morning in a certain college village going overfrom the hotel to take breakfast with some of the boys, and coming backwith one of the fellows whom I had just met. As we walked along,chatting away, I asked him quietly, "Are you a christian, sir?" Heturned quickly and looked at me with an odd, surprised expression in hiseye and then turning his face away said: "Well, I'm a member of church,but—I don't believe I'm very much of a christian." Then I looked at himand he frankly volunteered a little information. Not very much. He didnot need to say much. You can see a large field through a chink in thefence. And I saw enough to let me know that he was right in thecriticism he had made upon himself. We talked a bit and parted. But hisremark set me to thinking.
A week later, in another town, speaking one morning to the students of ayoung ladies' seminary, I said afterwards to one of the teachers as wewere talking: "I suppose your young women here are all christians." Thatsame quizzical look came into her eye as she said: "I think they areall members of church, but I do not think they are all christians withreal power in the