ma
Elsie, and went on to do so:

"'He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue
our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of
the sea.'

"What a gracious and precious assurance it is!" she said. "What is
cast into the sea is generally supposed to be lost beyond recovery--we
do not expect ever to see it again; so to be told that our sins are
cast there imports that they are to be seen and heard of no more."

"Because Jesus died for us and washed them all away in his precious
blood?" asked Little Elsie softly.

"Yes, dear, that is just what it means," replied her grandmother.

Evelyn's turn had come, and she read: "'And before the throne there
was a sea of glass like unto crystal.' Cruden says," she continued,
"that it probably signified the blood of Christ, whereby our persons
and services are made acceptable to God; and that it was called a sea
in allusion to the molten sea of the Temple. Also that it is
represented as a sea of glass like unto crystal, to denote the
spotless innocence of our Lord Jesus Christ, in his sufferings; that
his was not the blood of a malefactor, but of an innocent person."

"One suffering not for his own sins, but for the sins of others,"
sighed Grandma Elsie. "What wondrous love and condescension; and, oh,
what devoted, loving, faithful servants to him should we ever be!"

"We should, indeed," said the captain, then motioned to Lucilla that
it was her turn.

"'He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto
the ends of the earth,'" she read. Then turning over the leaves, "That
was in the Psalms," she said; "and here in Zachariah the prophecy is
repeated in almost the same words, 'And his dominion shall be from sea
even to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.' The
dominion of Christ, is it not, father?"

"Certainly; it can be no other," he said. "Now, Grace, it is your
turn."

"Mine is in the New Testament," she said--"the eighth chapter of
Matthew, beginning with the twenty-third verse. 'And when he was
entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And behold there
arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered
with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him and
awoke him, saying, Lord save us: we perish. And he saith unto them,
Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose and rebuked
the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men
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