I cannot come home too soon for him.
Boys, I am getting paid. I have a sister at home whose name I would
hardly dare to have taken upon my impure lips, and she writes me that
every day she has prayed for me and that a welcome home awaits me. I
am getting paid, for to-night I am starting back to my New England
home."

It is life which we may choose, and life of the very best sort. It is
better than anything that this world can give. Men have tried other
ways, and they have ended in despair and shame and death, but this way
is the path of the just and shines brighter and brighter unto the
perfect day. Therefore choose life and choose it now.

In St. Paul's cathedral in London it is said that under the dome there
is a red mark, and I have been told that this mark indicates the place
where a workman lost his life. He fell from the scaffolding and was
dashed to pieces upon the floor. I have been told that in the Alps
very frequently you will see black crosses where men have slipped into
eternity as the result of an accident. But I suggest these stories in
order that I may say that where you are at this present moment may be
the black cross of death, because there some one rejected Christ. If
you feel this, choose Jesus Christ; choose him, and choose him now.

"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose
life, that both thou and thy seed may live."

A CHANGED LIFE

TEXT: "_And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift
herself up. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said
unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity: And he laid his
hands on her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified
God._"--Luke 13:11-13.

These verses present to us one of the most interesting stories
imaginable--of interest to us first because it is one of our Lord's
miracles, and one has only to study these manifestations of his power
to be persuaded of his divinity; interesting, again, because it is the
account of a remarkable recovery from a great infirmity, for instead of
bondage which had held this woman for eighteen years we behold her
standing upright glorifying God. But it is all the more interesting to
us because it presents a picture of what may be called the overflow
ministry of Jesus, of which there are many inst