for your life.” It is the word which means dividing, distracting care,—care which divides the heart from God; care which pulls us many different ways; care which sets its stamp on our lives, and makes them fussy and turbulent. And the great danger in the religious life of people in a great city like this, is distraction. Duty pulls so many different ways: there are so many calls to help and to achieve, so many shining opportunities of doing good, that it is very easy to foster the Martha type of