ill be because the spirit of Christ was operating through those
feelings. You may find it as you make an about face, turning away from
that which is evil and making Christian duty your supreme choice in the
quiet of your own room. If you find it there, it will be because
Christ was present in those movements of your inner life. The woman
was healed in the Gospel story by touching the hem of Christ's garment
because Christ was within that garment.

If any man will seek for moral renewal at the hands of God he will
find. If he will knock at any one of these doors it will open. Here
is the Gospel as it stands recorded on the pages of the Old
Testament--"The spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee and thou shall
be turned into another man." Here is the same Gospel as it stands
recorded on the pages of the New Testament--"If any man is in Christ he
is a new creature. Old things are passed away and all things are
become new."

In the joy of moral renewal this well-born, well-reared, well-trained
young man gave himself in eager consecration to the highest he saw. "I
heard the voice of the Lord say, Whom shall I send? Who will go for
us? Then said I, Here am I, send me."

His nation, now robbed of its great king by the hand of disease, was
facing a crisis. The national church to which he belonged was steeped
in formalism and insincerity. The divine voice was uttering a
heartfelt lament over the unfaithfulness of the chosen people. "Israel
doth not know! My people do not think. The whole head is sick and the
whole heart is faint."

There was a loud cry for men of large build with wise heads and sound
hearts to furnish moral leadership. And in the face of that demand
this son of good fortune did not allow the divine spirit to go out into
the highways and hedges in order to compel some sort of man, any sort
of man, to come in that the ranks might be filled. He answered to his
name with a clear-cut consecration of himself. "Here am I, send me."

When war comes to any country, there are rich men who give money,
millions of it, that the war chest may be full. There are great
manufacturers who promptly place their plants at the disposal of the
government for the making of munitions. There are ship owners who turn
over their vessels to the Navy that they may be sent to do business in
the great waters of national defense. There are wise men who think
hard upon the problems of finance and statecraft that they ma