Mr. editor :-

May I add a word for your correspondent in answer to Question 9 in the May issue? The writer once had to face the same question as your questioner, and he proved that the one thins; above all is to follow the Lord Jesus in obedience to the word of God. When I faced the same question twenty years ago, I was superintendent of a prosperous Sunday-school of several hundred members. A dear Christian mother urged me to stay where I was, and give to those under me the instruction I was receiving from God's word. "Just think of your influence," she said. But conscience urged, and I turned from the position, soon after beginning anew, in a very humble way, a little Sunday-school on Sunday afternoons, and some preaching on the street. Now, after all these years, for nothing in this world would I retrace the step I took then in separating from associations I felt were not according to the word of God. It has resulted in being furnished with deeper, fuller and richer truth; and as for "influence," the step then taken opened a wider field of service than where I had been.

But even if such were not the case, surely "to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." Fellowship with evil is forbidden of God. Our part is to obey. Christ is coming, and we have only a little time in which to hear His voice and show our love by our obedience. Let Col. 3:11, "Christ is all, and in all," be our watchword. Only make sure it is His path-then follow it.