It was while C.T Studd was studying at Cambridge University in 1833, that he came across the following tract written by an anonymous atheist:"If I firmly believed, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life, influence destiny in the eternal world, then religion would mean everything to me. I would cast away all . . . earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as follies, and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity. "I would esteem one soul gained for Heaven, worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequences would never stay my hand nor seal my lips. Earth--its joys and its griefs--would occupy no moment of my thoughts. I would strive to look upon eternity alone, and on the immortal souls around me--soon to be everlastingly happy or everlastingly miserable."I would speak to my fellow men in season and out of season, and as far as my influence reached, I would strive to save them from eternal doom."Yet, you Christians who profess to believe this truth, and who say that you have been saved from eternal damnation--you do nothing! You profess to believe that the unconverted are going to Hell, yet you are as unconcerned about your fellow men as if they were only brutes. If I believed what you claim to believe, I would not rest, day or night, until I had ensured that everyone I met heard and had the opportunity to be saved. My text would be: "What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" Mark 8:36The tract's argument was that if Christians truly believed in the reality of Heaven and Hell, then their lives should reflect an urgent and relentless commitment to evangelism.This tract had a powerfu