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 accepted and those that are rejected? Let us examine this picture: here it is: "Then shall the King say to those on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me."—"Then shall He say, also, to those on the left hand. Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall He answer them, saying. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch, as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but those into life eternal."

This picture needs to be fixed firmly in the mind of every one of us, if we would be prepared for our own day of trial: we know, now, the questions that will be asked—let us take care to be ready with the answers. Not ready with the answers on our tongue, merely; that will avail us nothing before an omniscient Judge: but we need to be ready with the right answers in our hearts,—written there as on tablets— inscribed on our conscience itself, as "with the point of a diamond."