. Christian herald and signs of our times. am able to do this? heasked on one occasion. On another heworked a miracle, as he stated explicitly,that persons present might be convincedthat he had the power to forgive sins. Thefew recorded words that he addressed tohis mother, whom he evidently tenderlyloved, showed how this sense of his owninherent dignity was inwrought in hisnature. We cannot in this day conceiveof the real boldness involved in the Ser-mon on the Mount, in which he reiteratedagain and again the words, Moses saidunto you . . but I say unto you, some-thing entirely different. Wha
. Christian herald and signs of our times. am able to do this? heasked on one occasion. On another heworked a miracle, as he stated explicitly,that persons present might be convincedthat he had the power to forgive sins. Thefew recorded words that he addressed tohis mother, whom he evidently tenderlyloved, showed how this sense of his owninherent dignity was inwrought in hisnature. We cannot in this day conceiveof the real boldness involved in the Ser-mon on the Mount, in which he reiteratedagain and again the words, Moses saidunto you . . but I say unto you, some-thing entirely different. What must havebeen the sensations of a Jew accustomed tovenerate Moses next to the Almighty,when he heard the words of the great law-giver superseded by a young Galilean Car-penter, w ho did not condescend to argue,but calmly assumed the imperious andauthoritative manner of some one superiorto Moses ! And he intended the influenceof this personal characterto be perpetual. The one f~ceremony h e instituted — jthe only rite apart from the. WIST YE NOT THAT I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHERS BUSINESS. (Luke 2: 49 If this fact is realized, the twelve sub-jects falling under review in this lesson,take their appropriate places in the sur-vey. They are all concerned with miracles are recorded, not to excitewonder, but to produce faith in him; thefacts of his life are set down, that we mayknow him and love him. The teacher~i will find that there is no principle so
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