far up in thfe cold spaces of the 
sky j and heaven, like a convent, with very high walls, peopled 
by nuns rigid as Aunt Agnes. And then the change which 
came over all my  when I learned, through Dr. Luther's 
teaching, that God is wordnetdesire  is our Father ; that Christ is the 
Saviour, who gave himself for our sins, and loved us better than 
life ; that heaven is our Father's house ; that holiness is simply 
loving God  who is so good, and who has so loved us, and, 
loving one another, that the service we have to render is simply 
to give thanks and to do good ;  ^when, as Dr. Luther said, that 
word " our " was written deeply in my   that for our sins 
He died  ^for mine,  that for all, for us, for me, He gave him- 
self. 

And then Fritz told us how he had toiled and tormented 
himself to reconcile God to him, until he found, through Dr. 
Luther's teaching, that our sins have been borne away by the 
Lamb of God  the sacrifice not of man's gift, but of God's ; 
" that in that one person, Jesus Christ, we had  of 
sins and eternal life ;" that God