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brother. They had a pleasant skate a little way from shore until they came to a great crack in the ice. The elder brother was Strong, so he simply gave a leap and passed over it. On looking back, he saw his little brother standing on the edge. So the big boy came back, kneeled down, reached over the chasm, put his hands on the cold ice over yon der and let the little fellow find a living bridge over his back. Golden Text Illustrations. A heathen girl was once asked by her teacher: “ Is there anything you can call your own?” She hesitated for a mo ment, and then, looking up, replied, “ I think there is.” “ What is it?” asked the teacher, with surprise. “ I think,” said the girl, “ that my sins are my own.” Another girl in this country was asked if there was anything whiter than snow, “ Yes,” she said, “ a heart washed in Jesus’ blood is whiter than snow.” “While in the mountains of Colo rado,” says Dr. Chapman, “ I noticed the miners going into the mine at the be ginning of their ‘shifts.’ Then their hands and faces were clean as they could make them, but at the end of the ‘shifts’ it would be difficult to tell wheth er they were by nature black or white, and yet there was one spot as clean as when they entered the mine; that was the ball of the eye; and that not be cause no impurities had touched it, for the mine was filled with such, but be cause there is a little tear gland which keeps working all the time, and when the least speck touches the eyes it washes it away. The Spirit and the Word of God should be let to flow over the soul at all times. v. 1. Have mercy upon me, O God. I dare not say my God for I have lost Thee by sin. I dare not approach Thee, but standing afar off and lifting up my • voice with great COMMENTS PROM devotion and con- MANY SOURCES trition, I cry to Keith L. Brooks T h e e .— Forbes. According to thy
A man in England was being tried on a serious charge. The lawyer proved his case, he remained calm; the jury re turned a verdict of guilty, he remained calm, the judge passed a severe sentence, he remained calm. LESSON Then he quietly pro- tLl/USTRATIONS duced t h e Royal W. H. Pike pardon which he had by some means ob tained. That explained his calmness. The children in a school at Barcelona were reading the ninth chapter or John. After the teacher had given them some questions in reference to it, a little girl said, “ ‘That poor blind man was able to be very sure of what he said.” “ One thing I know, that, where as I was blind, now I see’.” And the boy Ramon Ortas replied, “ But X also know something as surely as that which the blind man knew.” “What?” cried several. “ That all my sins are pardoned, because that same Jesus who opened the blind man’s A criminal was sentenced to death but while lying in prison, a fearful plague broke out in the city. His wife went from house to house ministering to the sick and dying; thinking that in some way she might make some sort of expia tion for her husband’s crime. At last, when worn to a shadow and ready to faint with toil and vigil, the plague stayed, while her praises are on the ton gues of grateful hundreds who have been brought back to life by her patient min istry. When her husband heard of her expiatory sufferings he was moved to tears and repentance. The Governor, hearing the story, pardons the man be cause of the vicarious sufferings of his wife. In a far greater way did Jesus make propitiation for our sins and give to God, the Father, a basis on which to pardon us. Pardon Is the Bridge to God. Agassiz, the great scientist, when a boy, was one day skating with his little eyes died for me on the cross.” Pardon Rests On Atonement.
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