“Can you perform miracles?” inquired a young Brahmin student of an Officer. “Can you cast out devils? My father can! I have seen him do it. Therefore our religion must be greater, as well as older than yours."

Just then a telegram came summoning him to his father’s deathbed. He arrived too late, but eagerly questioned his mother and relatives as to the last moments of his father. “Terrible, terrible!” was the reply. “He gathered us round his deathbed and told us that many years ago he had promised the devil that he would sell his soul to him, if he would only give him the power to work miracles, and to cast out devils. The offer had been accepted, and they had themselves seen him exercise those occult powers. Now the time had come for him to pay the price and the devil had come to claim his soul! He shrieked in agony that the devil was there in the room—by his bedside, and thus passed away without hope, and without God.”

Overpowered with emotion, the student soon hastened back to The Salvation Army, and sought and found his Saviour. A terrible season of persecution followed. But by the power of Christ he remained faithful, and is to-day occupying an important Government position, and testifying by a consecrated life to the saving and keeping power of Christ.