all that was due unto him." By this parable Christ taught that they who hoped forgiveness of heaven should be forgiving to one another. Soon after this, Christ sent forth seventy of his disciples, to spread abroad the tidings by which their own souls had been gladdened. In sending them forth, he enjoined them to manifest such earnestness and such freedom from small cares, as might make it plain to every passer-by that their minds were full of the most important business. They were not to encumber themselves with provisions or food or clothing, nor tarry by the way to exchange the long and ceremonious greetings for which the Orientals have always been notorious. For the same reason, Elisha gave the same injunction to Gehazi, when he sent him on a message intended to be speedily delivered.

It will be recollected that Jesus had abstained from attending at Jerusalem at the last Passover. Autumn had now come, and with it the pleasant Feast of Tabernacles. The "brethren" of Jesus perceiving that he manifested no intention to attend this feast either, urged him to do so. Their feeling in this is not difficult to discover. They, who had always had the human presence of Christ before their eyes, found it difficult to believe in him with entire fixedness. The miracles which they saw him perform inclined them to belief; but they were ever anxious to receive proofs yet more manifest of the divine dignity to which he laid claim. They now wished to see him in the great theatre of the metropolis; still expecting, probably, the arrival of a decisive moment in which he would reveal himself with power as the Messiah. This moment, they supposed, would come as soon as matters should be brought to a crisis by his appearance among his enemies at Jerusalem. Jesus, however, being unwilling to excite attention without necessity, did not consider the present moment, when the bulk of the people were in the road, as the most suitable.

FEAST OF TABERNACLES.

He suffered his brethren to depart alone; but afterwards went up to the holy city in a private manner with his disciples.

At Jerusalem the expectations of the assembled multitudes were alive concerning him, and with different feelings men talked eagerly to one another about the probabilities of his appearance. length Jesus arrived at the feast.

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CONDUCT OF OUR LORD AT JERUSALEM-THE PHARISEES SEND OFFICERS TO APPREHEND HIMTHE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY-CURE OF A MAN BORN BLIND-PARABLE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD-PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN-THE JOYFUL RETURN OF THE SEVENTYTRUE CAUSE OF JOY.

is the simple and abundantly satisfactory reason for this, which the Evangelist assigns.

On the last day of the feast, the Pharisees, who were in authority, did send officers to apprehend him as he taught in the temple; for by that time they perceived that the current of popular opinion was setting in strongly in favour of his claims. Then said one to another, "When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than those which this man hath done ?" Some averred, "Of a truth this is the Prophet (which Moses foretold)." Others said, "This is the Christ." But some objected, "Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the Scripture said that Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was ?" The officers sent by the Pharisees paused to hear his discourse, and were so impressed by