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she took the hand of the hoy and the hand of the father, while she lay there on the bed, dying, the two men on either side; and moving first the one and then the other she began to pull those hands towards each other. Of course they knew what she was doing, but they knew too that she was dying. And ever she drew them nearer and nearer until at last those two hands touched, and then that woman died. Let us go to Bethlehem that we may see God and man brought together by the One who was born as a babe 5 and cradled in a manger. That is the old story; that is the story I have been telling for forty years; that is the story to which I have given all my life. Sometimes I feel that I have never made as much of it as I might; but God is my judge, and He knows I am telling the truth when I say that if I had another ten thou sand lives, I would devote them all to telling that same story. Let us go to Bethlehem that we may find God and man rightly adjusted! * * * * For you see we had sinned, and God had to look after not only the sinner, but He had to look after Himself; and He must be eareful-Bmay I say it with bated breath, with deep humility and with solemn reverence—God must.be careful lest He compromise Himself in the way He forgives sin. Many of us down here in the world have ruined our Chil dren by slurring over things that we ought to have settled, and by treating wrong and evil as though they were trivial things. God must not make that mistake. What will He do? He will have to provide a Substitute for the sinner. And there are two or three things about that Substitute that 'are self-evident. He must be worth all the sinners in moral value. And where will God find such an one? Only in heaven; and that is why Christ had to come to Bethlehem, there to offer up a sacrifice that was worth all the lives of all who were created by God. And He must bear the penalty too, and that is why He had to go to the Cross; and that is why when you take the Cross out of the Christian doctrine, you have taken the sun out of the sky. God had attached a penalty to sin; if He is righteous, He never has to change; and if He never has to change, then that penalty stands. And when His own Son said, “ I come to do Thy will, and save these people” , then His own Son had to get underneath the penalty of sin. And that Substitute must be acceptable to the justice of God. And God raised up! Christ from the dead as a testi mony of His acceptance of Jesus Christ as your Savior and mine. Now what is in our way? Only one thing; but that is the strongest thing on earth! What? The human will! Here is my Savior, my Substitute, infinite in worth, bearing the penalty of my sin, and acceptable to the great God against whom I have sinned; what is in the way of my salvation? Nothing in the world except my will! He can stand, hold ing forgiveness in one of His nail-pierced hands, and eternal life in the other nail-pierced hand, and He can ask me to be saved, and I can say: “ I won’t.” You must believe me in this, because when He was on the earth He said to His own city: “ O Jerusalem, I would have gathered you as a hen gathered her brood under her wing'Jj—I would—-“ but ye would not.” And the “ would not” of Jerusalem overcame the “ would” of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Then let us go to Bethlehem and settle this thing; let us go to the Christ who said: “ Come unto me and I will give
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