There are two services in life, and unto one or the other do we all devote ourselves. Perhaps a large number of young people go on without stopping at all to think whether their governing motive is to please God or to please themselves; to do the thing that is right, because it is right, or the thing that is pleasant, because it is pleasant.
This thought was the keynote of the sermon to which Ellen Grey listened. Perhaps she was the only one in the whole congregation to whom, in all its force, the thought went home. But if, among the shining hosts of heaven, there is joy over one sinner that repenteth, surely that preacher need not feel a sermon lost, to which even one hearer listens with the heart.
"Which," the preacher said at the end, "which, then, will you do, please yourselves, or strive to please Him? Which is best worth your while? And if you would serve Him who has called you, there is no time to lose, for soon the night cometh. It must be now that you begin, and not tomorrow."
