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Long ago when they were having the Olympic games in Athens it is said a feeble old man came in late.  There were no seats left.  He passed the benches where the Athenians sat and they laughed at him.  Then he passed by where the Spartans were sitting.  In a moment those men of Sparta rose as one man to offer him a seat, for they had been trained to be modest and courteous. When the Athenians saw the Spartans do that they began to cheer.

“Ah,” said the old man, “the Athenians admire what is right, the Spartans practice it.”

Perhaps you have admired some friend because he was an out and out Christian.  Why not go farther than that and become a Christian yourself?

And then be out and out for Jesus?  When we stand before Him at the judgment seat of Christ we will not be judged for the things we have only admired – we will be judged for what we have practiced.

Bulletin, Lonoke, Arkansas