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HE woman here mentioned was a widow, and it is said that she cast into the treasury all that she had, and that her little all consisted of two mites. Widows are mentioned in Scripture to signify those in the church who are in states of goodness of life, and who are, at the same time, destitute of the protection of truth, but who ardently desire to possess it. Hence it is one of the prophetic injunctions to "plead for the widow!" Those who are in love with all that is good, pure, and holy, will sooner or later draw to themselves the truth, and that truth will be to them an everlasting protection. This is made evident from the fact that the Lord Jesus, who is himself the Truth, was drawn more closely to the widow than to any of those who had cast in of their abundance. He declared that she was the most sincere worshipper, and that unto the offerings of God she had cast in more than they all.

It was for this reason, that when a famine was sore in the land, the prophet Elijah was sent to none but a widow. She being in the love of goodness, and most ardently desirous of truth, was in a fit state to receive it, whenever presented. To her, therefore, the prophet, as the man of God, and representative of the truth,