Christ’s discipleship is always practical; it is of the heart and of the hand as well as of the head. Your conviction that you are clean before God will give you confidence in telling out to others the story of the cross. At home one might not have all the skill of the hospital at command, but one would be sure of a certain priceless tenderness which no nurse can rival. The man of God is pricked and torn by the briers of the age in which he travels; he is vexed and wearied with the bribery and corruption