Bible pictures; or, Life-sketches of life-truths . nd thenthe crowning finish is given by writing on all thedoors, Holiness to the Lord. The Saviour having thus come in, and the entiremansion having been set in order for His promised supper now begins. In this Jesus,though entering as a guest, acts the part of prodigal, just redeemed from bondage and beg-gary, has nothing. Christ must find all. He leadsthe soul to the banqueting room, spreads over it thebanner of His love, provides the repast, presides atthe board, dispenses the living bread and the new 32 BIBLE PICTURES
Bible pictures; or, Life-sketches of life-truths . nd thenthe crowning finish is given by writing on all thedoors, Holiness to the Lord. The Saviour having thus come in, and the entiremansion having been set in order for His promised supper now begins. In this Jesus,though entering as a guest, acts the part of prodigal, just redeemed from bondage and beg-gary, has nothing. Christ must find all. He leadsthe soul to the banqueting room, spreads over it thebanner of His love, provides the repast, presides atthe board, dispenses the living bread and the new 32 BIBLE PICTURES. wine of the kingdom. And there they sit — theGod-man and the saved man—supping with eachother in intimate and holy fellowship. Great is thejoy of both — on the one side the joy of happinessconferred, ou the other the joy of happiness re-ceived. And that joy travels beyond the immediatescene of their communion. Waiting angels catchit up and bear it to the skies. And so there is joyon earth and in heaven over the House of the CHAPTER SHEPHERDS AND THE ANGELS. AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OFTHE HEAVENLY HOST, PRAISING GOD, AND SAYING, GLORY TO GODIN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD-WILL TOWARD MEN. —Luke ii. 13, 14. E often see, when thick cloncls overspreadthe horizon, a rift suddenly opening intheir dense masses, and a streak of clearsky gleaming through, and touching theirdark edges with golden sunshine. Thisbeautiful fact finds a striking moral resemblance inthe occasional flashes of light from heaven whichshone on the earthly life of our Lord. The object for which He visited this mortal sphererequired that His sojourning in it should be markedby abasement and suffering. He came not to ex-hibit the splendors of His kingly state — not to awethe nations by displays of celestial power — but, byuniting the Divine with the human, to achieve, inthe two-fold nature, the part of a perfect Mediatorbetween God and men. To acc
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