God is a good paymaster! He pays his servants while they're still working, not just when the job is done. And one of his payments? An easy conscience.

When you speak faithfully about Jesus to even one person, you go to bed that night with a settled heart. You can think, "Today I discharged my conscience of that man's blood." There is deep comfort in doing something for Jesus. Oh, what a happiness to place jewels in his crown, and give him to see the travail of his soul!

And the reward of watching the first buddings of conviction in a soul! To notice that girl in your class and think, "She is tender of heart—I do hope that there is the Lord's work within." To go home and pray for that boy who said something this afternoon that made you think he must know more of divine truth than you had feared! Oh, the joy of hope!

But as for the joy of success! It is unspeakable. This joy, overwhelming as it is, is a hungry thing—you pine for more of it. To be a soul-winner is the happiest thing in the world. With every soul you bring to Christ, you get a new heaven upon earth.

But who can conceive the bliss which awaits us above! Oh, how sweet is that sentence: "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" Do you know what the joy of Christ is over a saved sinner? This is the very joy which we are to possess in heaven.

Yes, when he mounts the throne, you shall mount with him. When the heavens ring with "Well done, well done," you shall partake in the reward. You have toiled with him, you have suffered with him, you shall now reign with him. You have sown with him, you shall reap with him. Your face was covered with sweat like his, and your soul was grieved for the sins of men as his soul was. Now shall your face be bright with heaven's splendor as is his countenance, and now shall your soul be filled with beatific joys even as his soul is.