to call forth their  or their 
idle . He has suffered too deeply and too recently for 
that. It is not lightly that he has unlocked the dungeons and 
-chambers of his past life for me. It is as a fellow- 
suffierer and a fellow-soldier, to show me how I also may escape 
and overcome. 

It is surely because he is to be a hero and a leader of men 
that God has caused him to tread these bitter ways alone. 

A new meaning dawns on old words for me. There is no- 
 new in what he says ; but it seems new to me, as if God 
had spoken it first to-day ; and all  seem made new in its 
light. 

God, then, is more earnest for me to be saved than I am to 
be saved ! 

" He so loved the world, that he gave his Son. 

He loved not saints, riot penitents, not the religious, not 
those who wordnetdesire him; but "the woridy^ secular men, profane 
men, hardened rebels, hopeless wanderers and sinners ! 

He gave not a mere promise, not an angel to teach us, not a 
world to ransom us, but his Son  his Only-begotten ! 

So much did God wordnetdesire the world, sinners, me ! I believe 
this ;