My sympathies do not
need to be drawn out in that direction."
The smile was a peculiar one now, but the tone was very quiet in which
the little lady said that some time, when they had leisure to talk, she
should like to ask him whether his experience with Christians had been
so exceptionally bright that he thought there was no work to do in that
direction.
"But just now," she added, earnestly, "I want to know, since you are
shut away from home effort, for which of these boys you are praying
especially, and which of them do you carry about on your heart, with
the hope of a chance meeting, an unexpected, opportunity to speak a
word, or do a kindness, or look a kindness that shall give you possible
future influence? Don't you have to work in those ways? Two people
never equally interest me at the same moment. I find I must be intensely
individual, not to the exclusion of others, but in praying. For instance,
yesterday I prayed, and this morning I prayed, for my entire class, but
there was one all the time who was uppermost. I find myself questioning,
What can I do for them all, but especially for him? Do you know, I fancy
that most Christians feel the same; individual effort is so necessary
that I have thought perhaps the Holy Spirit turns our thoughts most
directly toward one person at a time, so that we may concentrate our
efforts.
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