enlargement of the bounds of the Kingdom of God. So there is deliverance from every form of sin if we will but move in God's way.

DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE IN

CHRISTIAN WORK

TEXT: "Salute no man by the way."—Luke 10: 4, Luke is the only one of the Evangelists giving us the account of the sending out of the seventy. The others tell us that Christ called certain men unto him and commissioned them to tell his story; but in this instance after Jesus had said, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man hath not where to lay his head," he calls the seventy and sends them forth prepared to endure any sacrifice or suffer any affliction if only they may do his will. And when he had said unto another, follow me, but he answered, "Suffer me first to go and bury my father," (Luke 9: 60-62) Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead; but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid

them farewell which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." From this expression of the Master we quite understand that no other service, however important it may seem to us, is to come between us and our devotion to him. And in the expression concerning the man having put his hand to the plow and looking back we have one of the strongest illustrations that Jesus ever used. He does not say if any one puts his hand to the plow and turns back to some other form of service that he is not fit for the Kingdom of God, but what he says is this, If any man has his hands to the plow and simply looks back he is not fit for the Kingdom; and this for two reasons:

First: Because no man could plow as he ought to unless he would keep his eyes straight ahead of him, and

Second: No man could plow if he has his mind fixed upon something else. Jesus wants his disciples to know that his work

is the important work, that nothing can surpass it. Not only is it wrong for us to turn away from him to any other service but it is a sin even to take our eyes off of him to gaze upon anything else. Under such sharp teaching as this he sends forth the seventy.

Who

Let it be noted, first, that he sent them forth two by two. Perhaps one was sent because he was strong in the opposite direction from his fellow laborer. knows but one could speak and the other could sing, certainly one was the complement of the other. And they went forth with burning hearts to give the message of Jesus. That illustration in the New Testament where four men brought the sick man to Jesus is along the same line. Two men would have failed utterly, three men would have found it difficult service, for four men it was easy.

I once made my way into the office of a doctor to ask him to come to Christ. The meetings were in progress in the church and I thought he was interested.

He received me kindly, but firmly declined even to talk of Christ and I left him utterly discouraged. That night the man gave his heart to Christ and for this reason I believe. We had made him in a little commpany of church officers a subject of prayer and you cannot pray earnestly for one for any length of time without speaking to them concerning their soul's salvation. Without having had a conference four men determined to see the doctor and they all called upon him within two hours of time. When the first came he laughed at him; when the second came, his prominence in the business world at least commanded the doctor's respect; when the third came having driven four miles in from the country he began to be interested; and with the coming of the fourth there was awakened in him a deep conviction. He closed his office, went to his home and before the evening hour of service came had accepted Christ.

We have practically the same commis