It does not necessarily follow from this that a realization of the
truth of Christianity, and an awakening to the claims of religion,
will lead to any outward change or radical alteration in the general
conception of a man's life-work. It may or it may not do so. There are
indubitably cases in which a man is called upon to abandon his
previous career--to forsake prospects, however promising, or to
renounce wealth and possessions, however entangling--in order to
become (for example) a minister of the Church or a missionary of the
Gospel, or to enter a religious order. Our Lord's command to the rich
young ruler, that he should give up all that he had, in order to
follow Christ along the paths of homelessness and poverty, is a call
which sounds still with a literal force in the ears of a certain
number of His disciples. The inner spirit, moreover, of detachment
from the world and from the things of the world, the readiness to
abandon wealth and worldly position if need so require, and the
refusal to be ensnared by them, are in any case demanded of all.
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