Without some duty life cannot hold itself erect.

If a man has no regular calling he is an unhappy man and a cross man, and I think prayers should be offered up for his wife and children and a' who have to live with him.

Take David into your own employ at once." "O minister, that I canna do! My office has aye had God-fearing, steady men in it, and I canna, and--" "'And that day Jesus was guest in the house of a man that was a sinner.' John, can't you take a sinner as a servant into your office ?" "I'll try it, minister." "And, John, it will be a hard thing to do, but you must watch David constantly.

You must follow him to his drinking-haunts and take him home; if need be, you must follow him to warse places and take him home.

You must watch him as if all depended on your vigilance, and you must pray for him as if nothing depended on it.