move us. Neither suffering nor ease should find us without a suitable Christian response in prayer and song. We may say that James is asserting, in verse 13, principles which cover life in all its widely differing forms. Our religion should cover all experience, finding expression in prayer or praise as the occasion may demand. Calvin puts it well when he comments that James ‘means that there is no time in which God does not invite us to himself’. It is not so much that our religion should cover