In old England they had a town crier who walked the streets and shouted out the news. It was necessary for many were illiterate and poverty would not allow them to buy a paper even if they could read. Long before these town criers there was another who was practicing the trade out in the wilderness. In Mark 1:2b-4a we read, "...Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way. He is a voice shouting in the wilderness 'Prepare the way for the LORD's coming! Clear the road for him! This messenger was John the Baptist...." John knew what his message was to be about. It was clear and concise. In Mark 1:4b we read "He was in the wilderness and preached that people should be baptized to show that they had repented of their sins and turned to God to be forgiven." How about our lives? Do they shout out the message of Salvation to a spiritually poverty stricken society we live in today? A society that is void of hearing the Word of God. Our lives should shout out purity, kindness, patience, love, and so on, to a world that is spiritually poor and lost.