"I say a man who does such and such a thing is not a Christian." But, my brother, he is a Christian, even if he has done that awful wrong you speak of. When my sheep strays into another man's pasture, is it no longer my sheep? When the prodigal went away to the far country, was he no longer his father's son? "Yes, but a Christian means a follower of Christ." True. And strictly speaking, not one of us deserves that name. But God gives it to us that we may realize its import in our lives. Just so does the medical fraternity by courtesy call the medical student "Doctor" from the day he enters the school, though he lacks a good deal of being a doctor as yet. So are we in God's school, and he gives us his Son's name to wear until we have either finally shown our unfitness to pass or have graduated to wear it forever in the new Jerusalem. "He that overcometh, . . . I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, . . . and my own new name." (Rev. 3:12.)

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