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"Ah, dear friends, we are in sad want of good news about God; and what does other good news signify if we haven't that? For everything else comes to an end, and e die we leave it all But God lasts when everything else is gone What shall we do if he is not our friend?"

Then Dinah told how the good news had been brought, and how the mind of God towards the poor had beenon its lowliness and its acts of mercy

"So you see, dear friends," she went on, "Jesus spent his tiood to poor people; he preached out of doors to theht theood to the rich too, for he was full of love to all men, only he saw as the poor were more in want of his help So he cured the lame and the sick and the blind, and he worked ry because, he said, he was sorry for them; and he was very kind to the little children and comforted those who had lost their friends; and he spoke very tenderly to poor sinners that were sorry for their sins

"Ah, wouldn't you love such a e? What a kind heart he o to in trouble! How pleasant it ht by hiood ood man, and no more--like our dear Mr Wesley, who has been taken froe of the Father,' the Bible says; thatand end of all things--the God ant to know about So then, all the love that Jesus showed to the poor is the same love that God has for us We can understand what Jesus felt, because he came in a body like ours and spoke words such as we speak to each other We were afraid to think what God was before--the God whoWe could never see his he had ht well treht of him But our blessed Saviour has showed us what God is in a way us poor ignorant people can understand; he has showed us what God's heart is, what are his feelings towards us