The Simplicity of Salvation
THERE is a satisfaction in doing a great thing. It seems worth while to undertake a work which will strain every nerve and employ every power. Many a man would go into battle bravely, who now shrinks from having a tooth pulled, and who is sometimes timid in a dark room or in a lonely house. Thousands of young men would be ready to go across a continent or an ocean, to dig in a gold mine or a diamond field in the effort to make money, who are unwilling to give up tobacco, or to live within their income day by day to acquire a competency. And oh, how many there are who would do any great thing for salvation, if only that were its price! They would go to war, or to the martyr's stake; they would subject themselves to penance or to bodily torture; anything difficult, anything great. Man's chief trouble with God's plan of salvation is that it is so simple, so easy of attainment by anybody.—Sel.