When the saving grace and love of Christianity was a new message to the world, many of the letters to the young Church emphatically reminded the early Christians of the continuing need of moral and spiritual discipline in thought and action.
Everyone would agree that it would be most difficult to pluck turnips from a pear tree! Like produces like, as a general rule; and we could reason, therefore, that evil cannot be the product of good.
Sometimes we have an experience that seems hard and unpleasant, but later we realize that through it so much error was uncovered and destroyed, and so much Truth seen, that it was actually a blessing.
It was with a feeling of excitement and no little apprehension that I, as a young boy new to the ways of the sea, climbed aboard the old oceangoing trader lying in Glasgow Docks and reported to the officer on watch.
