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 bend ever  lower  and  lower  in  their  humility  and  pass unnoticed. But the  appalling  amount  of  misery  and sin around  and  among  us  is  well  calculated  to  turn us again  to  Christ  to  ask  "  Lord,  are  they  few  that are  saved?  "  For  an  answer,  we  must  study  the  sinner and  study  the  Saviour. The living  sinner,  be  he ever  so  bad,  never  irrevocably  forfeits  his  heirship  to the  kingdom  of  heaven. God's providence  is  with him even  in  his  sins. Christ deals  with  him  as  with a ship  at  sea,  lading  him  with  a  burden  of  temptations not  excessive  nor  yet  dangerously  light;  and very often  God  permits  him  to  fall  to  the  lowest depths that,  as  David  says:  "  in  very  terror  at  the multitude  of  his  own  iniquities  he  may  return  more quickly  and  more  closely  to  himself." God is  a homoeopath. Hence, Shakespeare  says:  "  Best  men are  moulded  out  of  faults;  and,  for  the  most,  become much  more  the  better  for  being  a  little  bad." And St. Paul  assures  us  that:  "  Virtue  is  perfected  in infirmity." Hence, I  say,  from  the  amount  of  sin  in the  world  we  cannot  fairly  estimate  the  number  of souls  that  are  lost,  for  we  must  never  lose  sight  of the  fact  that  these  very  sinners  were  the  primary object of  Christ's  coming  on  earth;  that  He  has  an infinite  desire  that  all  should  be  converted  and  live; that He  is  powerful  enough  to  raise  His  murderous persecutor, Saul,  to  such  a  point  of  sanctity  as  not to be  one  whit  behind  the  very  chiefest  of  the Apostles. Yea, even  should  the  sinner  persevere  in his  iniquity  till  the  last  few  moments  of  his  life,  there are still,  as  for  the  thief  on  the  cross,  possibilities  of