jealous for God and His law, letting it be known and felt that we are
thus jealous for His honour, not one of us could fail to make the life
around us in some degree better, brighter, happier.

It is in this way that he who is strong and true makes truth and honour
and uprightness stronger in those beside him; it is in this way that he
who is industrious, as a duty, makes industry more prevalent; it is in
this way that he who shows his hatred of impurity makes the atmosphere
pure in his society.

And in so far as any of you are acting in this way you are doing a
prophet's work, and you, too, may claim to have been jealous for the Lord
God of Hosts. So the youngest boy and the oldest man may become fellow-
labourers--[Greek text]--fellow-labourers in the harvest-field of God,
and it is a great privilege to claim.

But the blessing of it is greater still. Very often, if you are known to
be thus jealous, even your presence will banish sin, silencing the evil
tongue, strengthening the weaker brother, and making the sunshine of a
new life to shine all round you.

But what if sometimes you feel that you are not equal to all this? if
when the voice cries, "What doest thou here?" you have no answer to give?
It is good for us in such a case to turn and see how God dealt with His
prophet, how He made him come forth and stand on the mount before him.
The Lord passed over him, revealing His presence in the wind, the
earthquake, and the fire, revealing it yet more intimately in the sound
of the still small voice. So He sent Him out again with a new
commission; and so we, too, may learn our lesson, if we care to learn it.
And the lesson is this, that God renews our wavering strength, that He