great facts Dr. Luther had 
unveiled to us from the Holy Scriptures, that there is one sac- 
rifice of atonement, the spotless Lamb of God, who gave him- 
self once for our sins; and that there is but one priestly Medi- 
ator, the Son of Man and Son of God; that, in consequence of 
this, all Christians are a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual 
sacrifices; and the feeblest has his offering, which, through 
Jesus Christ, God  to accept, having first accepted the 
sinner himself in the Beloved. 

Our mother spoke to us, in a few words, of the dreadful 
thoughts she had of God  picturing him rather as the lightning 
than the light; of the curse which she feared was lowering like 
a thunder-cloud over her life, until Dr. Luther began to show 
her that the curse has been borne for us by Him who was made 
a curse for us, and removed for ever from all who trust in him. 
" And then," she said, " the Holy Supper taught me the rest. 
He bore for us the cross; he spreads for us the feast We 
have, indeed, the cross to bear, but never more the curse; the 
cross from man, wordnetdesire from the devil, but from God 
nothing but