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What was that something? There is only one possible answer. It was the sin of the world—Your sin and mine; the knowledge of it, and the bearing of it, Let us try to get some faint idea of what the sin of the world must have meant to him, seen in all its wilful, ungrateful, degrade ing reality. I would premise it will be difficult for us, For our long association with it, and our participation in it has blunted our sensibilities, and then we know no other state. But cur Lord Jesus Christ came down from Heaven, where all is holiness and obedience and perfect happiness. And the result was that our Lord must have felt the disorder and unhappiness of earth as no other possibly could. Perhaps an illustration will help us to understand the difference between his consciousness of the world's sin and our consciousness of it. Might we not say that our attempt to understand how the sin of the world must have appeared to him is comparable to the difference in feeling and appreciation that would be existent between one who was suddenly transported from a healthy happy home, to a squalid leper hut, filled with inmates in the last stages of the terrible disease, and the feeling and appreciation of, say, a leper child who has known nothing else.
Not the Sinner But the Saint But not only does he see the sin as no-one else can,—since all others are blinded by habit and compromise,—but his very holiness and purity exquisitely sensitive to it. An instrument out of tune inflicts no discomfort on one with a dull and unmusical ear, it is sheer torment to a man whose ear is fine and sensitive. And it is with the soul as with the ear, it is not the sinner who feels the horror and shame of sin, but the saint. That is why the most poignant confessions of sin come not from the greatest sinners, but from the lips of the best and noblest of men And so Christ felt sin as no-one else ever did, as no-one else ever could The degradation of it, the shame of it, the awful perversion and ingram titude of it—A brutal crowd once dragged into his presence a woman hinese. This is a of. things, and I fear the statements ale foo" true. Various rumours are afloat in regard to "risings" in different parts. One states that the Mahomedai: s Shansi, Shensi and Honan have risen, joined their forces and are acting. westward. But amid constatements it is difficult to give hing definite. The famine is hav-nest depressing effect on business: a general stagnation seems to prevail. We are glad to be able to Feport a recreation ground as one of prospective, acquisitions of our Settlement, Tszchulin, We could wish it were not so far away from the business centre, some three li but better there than not to have it at all,
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