CHAPTER VII.
I AM unwilling to crowd too many different ideas into your minds, which might have the effect of rendering that confused which would otherwise be clear. I think, however, that I may venture very slightly to advert to another spiritual lesson which this beautiful history offers. It is different from the one we have just considered, but in harmony with it. It relates immediately to ourselves, and teaches something relating to our own spiritual life, as we are in our natural or evil state, and to the saving work which the Lord effects in those who are willing to become His children. Whatever in the Divine Word relates to the Lord and His experience, relates also to us and our experience, provided we become His true disciples.
Endeavour now to transfer the scene of this history to your own minds, and then try to
