"Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord
hath done for thee."--MARK 5:19.
There are a great many people longing for some grand sphere in which
to serve God. They admire Luther at the Diet of Worms, and only wish
that they had some such great opportunity in which to display their
Christian prowess. They admire Paul making Felix tremble, and they
only wish that they had some such grand occasion in which to preach
righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come; all they want is only
an opportunity to exhibit their Christian heroism. Now the evangelist
comes to us, and he practically says: "I will show you a place where
you can exhibit all that is grand, and beautiful, and glorious in
Christian character, and that is the domestic circle."