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"See!" she exclai to the left, with her eyes fixed on a point above the heads of the people "See where our blessed Lord stands and weeps and stretches out his arathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!'and ye would not," she repeated, in a tone of pleading reproach, turning her eyes on the people again "See the print of the nails on his dear hands and feet It is your sins that h all that great agony in the garden, when his soul was exceeding sorrowful even unto death, and the great drops of sweat fell like blood to the ground They spat upon hied him, they mocked him, they laid the heavy cross on his bruised shoulders Then they nailed him up Ah, what pain! His lips are parched with thirst, and they ony; yet with those parched lips he prays for theive thereat darkness fell upon him, and he felt what sinners feel when they are for ever shut out from God That was the last drop in the cup of bitterness 'My God, my God!' he cries, 'why hast Thou forsaken me?'

"All this he bore for you! For you--and you never think of him; for you--and you turn your backs on hih for you Yet he is not weary of toiling for you: he has risen froht hand of God--'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do' And he is upon this earth too; he is a us; he is there close to you now; I see his wounded body and his look of love"

Here Dinah turned to Bessy Cranage, whose bonny youth and evident vanity had touched her with pity

"Poor child! Poor child! He is beseeching you, and you don't listen to hiowns and caps, and you never think of the Saviour who died to save your precious soul Your cheeks will be shrivelled one day, your hair will be grey, your poor body will be thin and tottering! Then you will begin to feel that your soul is not saved; then you will have to stand before God dressed in your sins, in your evil tehts And Jesus, who stands ready to help you noon't help you then; because you won't have hie Now he looks at you with love and mercy and says, 'Come to me that you may have life'; then he will turn away fro fire!'"