ough faith in Him could have a life
strong and rich and fine, He actually believed that men who have bumped
their way clear down to the bottom of the moral stairs could climb up
again. He believed that the woman of the street, whom the bigots of
that day were ready to stone, could "go and sin no more," her sins
forgiven because she loved much.

The publicans and harlots would go into the Kingdom--they would go in,
Jesus said, ahead of some of those respectable, cold-hearted Pharisees
who were scandalized at such talk. He knew the capacity for moral
renewal which lies in waiting in every heart, and He knew His own power
to call that capacity into effective action. "I am the door," He said,
"to newness of life. By Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. He
shall go in and out and find pasture." Security, liberty, sustenance,
they would all be his!

My mind goes back to a man in one of my former parishes. He kept a
little store, but he neglected his business in order to get drunk. The
wolf was often at his door. He had a good wife and two lovely
daughters, but he had broken their hearts by his evil ways. He would
become so intoxicated that he would not know his own name nor the
street he lived on. When he was coming out of such debauches he would
go about dirty, blear-eyed, trembling, asking every man he met to give
him money to get another drink.

Then there came a day when that man's heredity was not changed, his
environment was not changed, but his heart was changed. He put his
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and was turned into another man. He
became at once sober, reliable, industrious, affectionate, aspiring.
He put a smile on his wife's face which is there yet. He began to take
care of his store and of his family. He became an honoured and useful
citizen, chosen to positions of trust by his fellow men. He has now
gone to his reward, but if he hears what I am saying he would tell you
that it is all true. He would tell you also that he owed this change
to the transforming power of the Son of God, the Saviour of men.

How the world changes and for the better! When Jesus Christ was here
they said of Him, "He receiveth sinners and eateth with them." They
said it with a sneer. When William Booth, the head of the Salvation
Army, did the same thing they said of him, "He receiveth sinners," but
they regarded it as the glory of his life. The first century saw the
Son of Man scorned and spat upon for