M- Always had plenty of money from his very babyhood, but had known nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the true riches.

He grew up worldly, without a thought of God, went into business for a time to amuse himself, but tiring of that gave it up and devoted his entire time to the world, the flesh and the devil. He went into society and enjoyed to the full its pleasures and lusts. There was nothing seemingly that the heart desired that he did not have. Wickedness and sin had full sway over him, and he traveled at a very fast pace until, worn out in body and mind he came to a full and sudden stop in his career. His physician told him he must quit his fast life and take a complete rest, or he would find a place in the insane asylum.

M- stopped his mad career, obeyed the physician's orders and was put in charge of R-, a trained nurse.

But rest! Rest? As well tell the waves of ocean, as they break unceasingly night and day on the rock-bound coast to rest. The soul that has not known God, but gone on with a free-rein in sin, cannot rest. "There is no peace saith my God, to the wicked." There is a blessed word to the soul that rests in Jesus "My peace I give unto you," but not a word of peace to the wicked.

And so the restless M- found a vent for his feelings by endeavoring to make miserable the life of his nurse. Swearing, outbursts of passion, disagreement, disobedience to the doctor's orders, and doing whatever lay in his power to make R-'s work harder filled the hours of M-'s life. Always there was in return the same gentleness, love and courtesy. Firmness of course, but railing and cursing quietly borne, until at last M- wondered and said one day to R-, '' How is it R- that I treat you so and yet you are always kind and gentle?"

"The Lord is my Shepherd" answered R- "and if it were not for that I could not stand it. But He comforts and sustains me, and He would do the same for you too would you but let Him." And with many another precious passage from God's word did R- strive to point his patient to the Lamb of God who beareth away the sin of the world.

And finally he succeeded. The Spirit of God used and blessed R-'s efforts, and soon the nurse had the unequaled joy of seeing his patient a happy, humble Christian, sitting at the feet of Jesus, "clothed and in his right mind."

M-'s death-bed a short time afterward was a scene of happy, joyous faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. "None of us liveth to himself and no one dieth to himself." The persecutions meekly borne and the patient showing forth of the Christ-life on the part of the nurse led his patient first to wonder, then to love, and then to praise. We are influencing each day a friend or neighbor or companion. Let us influence them for the blessed Lord Jesus; and this will be possible only as we realize "whether we live or die, therefore, we are the Lord's. F.