by the devil and carried along in evil ways by him at his will (2 Timothy 2:26). You never know when the mere fact that you are just ‘standing’—I am not asking you to be priggish, I am not asking you necessarily to talk, but I am just asking you to show that you can stand when everybody else is falling—you never know, I say, when that may arrest attention and open a door of opportunity for the saving Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. There, then, are some reasons and preliminary considerations why