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 you  can,  that  you  and  they  may  be  of  the  number  of those  who  "  in  a  good  and  perfect  heart,  hearing  the word,  keep  it  and  bring  forth  fruit  in  patience."

''"Behold, we  go  up  to  Jerusalem  and  the  Son  of  man  shall be  scourged  and  put  to  death,  but  the  third  day  He  shall rise  again." — Luke xviii. 31-33.

Ex. : Text.

I. Tribulations:  1. Israelites. 2. Our  guilt  greater. 3. Our worldliness.

II. Drunkenness: 1. History and  guilt. 2. Sea-donkey. 3. Devil  ever  active.

III. Salvation:  1. One small  door. 2. Circe. 3. The blacksmith.

Per. : 1.  The  cross. 2. Door  of  jubilee. 3. Foolish  virgins.

Brethren, now  is  the  season  when  we,  too,  start for the  heavenly  Jerusalem,  through  the  penitential Lenten exercises  and  the  arduous  duties  of  a  mission, and it  is  God's  design  that  our  human  nature  should be scourged  and  disciplined, — that  it  should  die  to the  world,  but  that  after  these  days  it  should  rise again to  a  new  life  of  grace. Our nature  craves  for laborless reward — a  thornless  rose — but  do  what  we will,  the  cross  comes  first,  and  afterwards,  perhaps, the crown. On that  day  when  our  first  parents,  wailing like  lost  souls,  fled  from  their  earthly  paradise,