and all appetite for liquor had left him forever. Nevertheless as he went to and fro through the city looking for work no one would take him, because, as they said:

“You said before that you had sworn off and would never drink again. We cannot trust you.”

The wife was trying to help with her word, but she was young in the thought, and needing more instruction, she came to me to ask what to do next.

“He has gone everywhere he knows,” she said, “and is ready to go more, although he feels it will not be any use and there must be another way.”

Since he was beginning to get this feeling, I said:

“Now he is ready to ‘stand . . . still, and see the salvation of Jehovah.’ Let him not go out of the house again to look for work unless he has a strong leading from within, but let him speak the word:

"I have my true position. I am now in my right work.”

The man did so. It required fortitude and strength of character to abide by it. But he knew enough of the principles of Truth to wait and trust.

In a day or so the mail brought a letter from the old “Captain” --- to whom he had not had the temerity to go after the terrible dismissal he had received --- which was couched in polite language, saying that he had heard that he (the man) had been looking for a position, and that there was an opening