, a refreshed energy, a clearer
understanding, a new zeal, a completer disregard of gains and praises
and promotion. Pay, honours, and the like cease to be the inducement of
effort. Service, and service alone, is the criterion that the quickened
conscience will recognise.

Most of such people will find themselves in positions in which service
is mingled with activities of a baser sort, in which service is a little
warped and deflected by old traditions and usage, by mercenary and
commercial considerations, by some inherent or special degradation of
purpose. The spirit of God will not let the believer rest until his life
is readjusted and as far as possible freed from the waste of these base
diversions. For example a scientific investigator, lit and inspired by
great inquiries, may be hampered by the conditions of his professorship
or research fellowship, which exact an appearance of "practical"
results. Or he may be obliged to lecture or conduct classes. He may
be able to give but half his possible gift to the work of his real
aptitude, and that at a sacrifice of money and reputation among
short-sighted but influential contemporaries. Well, if he is by nature
an investigator he will know that the research is what God needs of him.
He cannot continue it at all if he leaves his position, and so he must
needs waste something of his gift to save the rest. But should a poorer
or a humbler post offer him better opportunity, there lies his work for
God. There one has a very common and simple type of the problems that
will arise in the lives of men when they are lit by sudden realisation
of the immediacy of God.

Akin to that case is the perplexity of any successful physician between
the increase of knowledge and the public welfare on the one hand, and
the lucrative possibilities of his practice among wealthy people on the
other. He belongs to a profession that is crippled by a mediaeval code,
a profession which was blind to the common interest of the Public Health
and regarded its members merely as skilled practitioners employed to
"cure" individual ailments. Very slowly and tortuously do the methods of
the profession adapt themselves to the modern conception of an army of
devoted men working as a whole under God for the health of mankind as
a whole, broadening out from the frowsy den of the "leech," with its
crocodile and bottles and hieroglyphic prescriptions, to a skilled and
illuminating co-operation with those who deal w