As Robert Browning says:-- "In life exceptional, When old things terminate and new commence, A solitary great man's worth the world.
God takes the business in his own hand At such time." But the experience is not that only of great souls; there come times in the lives of all who are living faithfully and worthily when they must stand alone for God, without companionship, perhaps without sympathy or encouragement.

Here is a young person, the only one of his family who has confessed Christ.

He takes him as his Saviour, and then stands up before the world and vows to be his and follow him.

He goes back to his home.

The members of the home circle are very dear to him; but none of them are Christians, and he must stand alone for Christ among them.