And that brings us to the beautiful work of our guilds. There need be no particular kind of organisation, but we must in our parishes look round and see that everyone has what he wants--see that men and boys, women and girls, are looked after. When they are cured, have we provided that something should be given them to eat, something to strengthen them? Do we carry out the after-care which every good physician and surgeon always displays? I always remember, from my East London days, a little pamphlet written by the present Bishop of Southwell. It was called "From Marriage to Marriage." It made a great impression on me at the time. I cannot remember all he said, but the point is this: We were too much inclined to imagine that everyone had to go through a dreary course of falls and rescues. But if we really shepherded the little child from the moment he was born, it would be different. Let us begin with the young couple. From the time they leave the church we have to look after them. And then, when their child has come, we have to take care of that little child and shepherd it from the very start. If we do not do that, we have left out our most important work. There is a great deal of work upon which we are engaged--_e.g._, rescue work--which would not be on such a gigantic scale if we had real after-care committees thoroughly at work in the Church from the time the people are married. We must examine ourselves to-day, then, very strictly from the point of view of being good physicians: "What about my parish? Are my people dying under my hand, through my carelessness or want of skill? Are there any whom I do not know or who do not know me because I have not won their confidence? Do I visit them as much as I can, and find out what is the matter with them? Am I treating them with loving patience, and yet with frankness and courage and tenderness, looking after them right on to the end?" When the Apostles healed a man they gave us the true spirit in which to do it. "In the name of JESUS CHRIST rise up and walk." Not in their own name, not in their own power, but in the name and power of JESUS CHRIST. They did not try to be popular people and make people like them; they had but the one idea, to make it perfectly plain that the power of their LORD was present to heal; and the result was that the man leapt up, stood, and walked, and was seen afterwards in the Temple walking and praising GOD. If in our healing work we keep out the idea of self, and work as good physicians and celestial surgeons in the name of CHRIST, the effect of our work will be that we shall see numbers in the parish, perhaps paralysed before, walking and leaping and praising, not us, but GOD. III FISHERS OF MEN