has a man to fail to fathom the meaning of this stubborn fact? The kind of person Jesus Christ was, the kind of message he brought, the kind of work he did—this is a group of facts which challenges the attention of every sane man. Every thinking man must do something with these facts. No man who claims to be intellectually honest can afford to pass over facts like these—in their influence on history the most momentous facts the world has ever known.

Honesty of mind demands two things: First, that a man shall face the facts of life as they are. The man who is too lazy or too indifferent to face the most fundamental facts of life is simply intellectually dishonest. No other word will express it. Secondly, when a man sees a truth he must act on it, if he means to keep his intellectual self-respect. To know truth and not to act on it to the best of one's ability, this is sin. It is moral suicide. It is intellectual dishonesty.

Bring your indifferent man squarely before these facts. Help him to see that indifference is a sin against his intellectual self-respect. Help him to see that dishonesty here is more awful in its consequences than dishonesty in connection with the realm of things.

STUDY VII. HOW TO AWAKEN THE INDIFFERENT AND SELF-SATISFIED.

"Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find them so, blessed are those servants. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his house to be broken through. Be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh." (Luke xii. 37-40.)

PART 6. MEET THE EXCUSES "NO TIME" AND "DON'T FEEL LIKE IT."

THE man who is indifferent because of preoccupation feels that he has not the time to be a Christian. There are three things which, it seems to me, we ought to say to this man. First, he finds time for all things that he really considers worth while. If he is genuinely in earnest about this time question, then he undervalues Christianity. If it is worth anything, it is well worth the time necessary. Make the heroic call for service.

Secondly, I would say to him that it does not take any more time to be in a friendly attitude toward God and men than it does to be in an unfriendly attitude toward these persons. Christianity is not a matter of time but a matter of spirit.

Thirdly, I would say to him (and I would be willing to stake the whole argument on this) that he gains time by being a Christian. Every person who has any serious work must come to that work in the spirit of calm and composure. He who does not have himself well in hand, who does not hold the reins of his life well in his grip cannot hope to ac

complish great things. The busier a man is the more important that he should have a perfect calm and self-control. Whatever will help a man to get this calm and self-control will surely add to his capacity for achievement. Such power we claim for religious life. The proof of this is not far to seek. The men who have carried the weight of the world's burdens in all generations have on the whole been religious men. It has been demonstrated by more than one study that the Christian men in our colleges as a class outstrip the nonChristian men. They ought so to do. They have a sense of calm, of peace, of self-control which makes every hour count for more than it could otherwise do.

Another man objects that he does not feel like being a Christian. But one cannot afford to live on feelings alone. One's judgment must be given some consideration. Besides, all the training, all the education we have had has been an attempt to enable us to feel as we ought to act, and not to act as we feel. Duty and not feeling is the supreme word.

Some men think that right action when one does not feel right is hypocrisy. But it is far better for a man to feel wrong and act right than both to feel and act wrong. Besides, if a man's judgment tells him the right thing and he acts on it, his feelings will soon swing into line.

STUDY VII. HOW TO AWAKEN THE INDIFFERENT AND SELF-SATISFIED.

"Happy is the man that feareth alway; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief." (Prov. xxviii. 14.)

"Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye." (Acts vii. 51.)

"Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." (1 Cor. x. 12.)

"Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." (Matt. v. 6.)

PART 7. THE SIN OF THE SELF-SATISFIED.

THE man who is satisfied with himself and refuses to receive anything from the outside is, in the nature of the case, cut off from all growth. The very first condition of receiving any truth is to be dissatisfied with your present attainment. It is the hungering and thirsting that make it possible for one to be filled. He that neither hungers nor thirsts must always remain empty.

To such a person one can say that the most serious result of sin is the consequent readjustment of a man's attitude toward it. At first it seemed wrong; but now it seems perfectly legimitate. Self-satisfaction does not mean perfection. but rather that conscience has been stifled. If you find a person of this type, you must make him see that the best part of his life has been killed. A college man at a religious gathering once protested to me that the vilest forms of sin were legitimate and proper. His conscience seemed to be absolutely asleep. Another student excused cheating on the basis that

all students did it, and it was necessary in order to pass. Sin deceives us in that it makes us defend the practices of our lives, which practices at first we knew were wrong.

The self-satisfied man gets behind the plea that he is doing his best and that is all that is necessary. But no man is doing his best who does not take advantage of every means which is provided. Think of the silliness of a boy and girl who would say they were doing their best to get an education, and yet refuse to attend a college in their own town when the means were provided. The man who says he is doing his best and yet refuses to take God into account deliberately falsifies. He is not doing his best until he has called all possible resources to his aid.

Lastly, to the self-satisfied man you can say that the greatest sin against love is neglect, and that sin he is committing because he refuses to speak to his Heavenly Father. He is guilty of the greatest of sins, ingratitude. "To watch," says George Adam Smith, "though unable to soothe a dear body racked with pain is peace beside the awful vigil of watching a soul shrink and blacken with vice and your love unable to redeem it."

He who will deliberately wound the heart of love is guilty of the darkest sin. This is what the self-satisfied man does daily. By refusing to love his Father, by refusing to turn to him in friendly spirit, he is deliberately wounding that Fatherly God. If he has no other sin than this, he needs forgiveness.

"Hell," says George Adam Smith, "has been painted as a place of fires. But when we contemplate that men come to it with the holiest flames in the nature quenched, we shall justly feel it is rather a dreary waste of ash and cinder,

silent in death, for there is no life there; and there is no life there because there is no love, and no love because men in rejecting or abusing her have slain their own power ever again to feel her presence."