mptly--all these
will be useful in the greater business of life. We must be tried in
little things before we can be worthy to do big things.

Meanwhile doors are always opening to us whilst we are young, only very
often we do not think it worth while to go in at the open door because
it strikes us as dull or unimportant and not the great opportunity that
we hoped for. But those who go in at the door that opens, that take up
the dull little job that offers, and do it as well as they can, will
find, first that it is not so dull as they thought, and then that it
leads on to something else, and new doors open, and interests grow
wider, and more important work is offered. Those who will not go in, but
choose to wait till some more interesting or inviting door opens, will
find that opportunities grow fewer, that doors are closed instead of
opened, and life grows narrower instead of wider.

[Sidenote: All the Difference]

It is of course the motive that inspires us that makes all the
difference. To have once realised life, not as an opportunity for
self-pleasing, but as an opportunity for service, makes us willing to do
the small tasks gladly, that they may fit us for the higher tasks. It
would seem as if to us now came with ever-increasing clearness the call
to realise more truly throughout the world the great message that Christ
proclaimed of the brotherhood of men. It is this sense of brotherhood
that stirs us to make the conditions of life sweet and wholesome for
every child in our own land, that rouses us to think of the needs of
those who have never heard the Christian message of love. As we feel
what it means to know God as our Father, we learn to see all men as our
brothers, and hence to hear the call to serve them.

It is not necessary to go far to answer this call; brothers and sisters
who need our love and help are round our doors, even under our own roof
at home; this sense of brotherhood must be felt with all those with whom
we come in contact. To some may come the call to realise what it means
to recognise our brotherhood with peoples of other race and other
beliefs. Even within our own Empire there are, especially in India,
countless multitudes waiting for the truth of the gospel to bring light
and hope into their lives. Do we feel as we should the call that comes
to us from our sisters the women of India? They are needing teachers,
doctors, nurses, help that only other women can bring them. Is it not
worth