higher motive for repentance in 'the goodness of God' leading to it.
But there is danger that modern Christianity should think too little
of 'the terror of the Lord,' and so should throw away one of the
strongest means of persuading men. John's advice to the various
classes of hearers illustrates the truth that the commonest field of
duty and the homeliest acts may become sacred. Not high-flying,
singular modes of life, abandoning the vulgar tasks, but the
plainest prose of jog-trot duty will follow and attest real
repentance. Every calling has its temptations--that is to say, every
one has its opportunities of serving God by resisting the Devil.




JOHN'S WITNESS TO JESUS, AND GOD'S


'And as the people were in expectation, and all men
mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the
Christ, or not; 16. John answered, saying unto them
all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier
than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not
worthy to unloose: He shall baptize you with the Holy
Ghost, and with fire: 17. Whose fan is in His hand,
and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and will gather
the wheat into His garner; but the chaff He will burn
with fire unquenchable. 18. And many other things, in
his exhortation, preached he unto the people. 19. But
Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias
his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which