would leave all the others to go out into the wild mountains to look
for the lost sheep. How much more would the Father do for His own, and
especially for His little ones.

"Even so," He said, "it is not the will of your Father, which is in
heaven, that one of these little ones should perish."

Before going to the Feast at Jerusalem the Lord Jesus said many things
to His disciples that would help them to be loving and forgiving toward
each other and all the world, for they were very soon going to meet
trouble which would try their love and their faith. He told them to
deal gently with those who had done wrong, that they might win them
back to the right way. He told them that they should have help from
heaven when they asked for it, even if there should be only two to ask.

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name," He said,
"there am I in the midst of them."

"How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?" asked
Peter, "till seven times?"

"Until seventy times seven," said Jesus, and He did not mean that we
should even count the number of times that we forgive.

Then He told them a story of a forgiving king and an unforgiving
servant that you may read in the eighteenth chapter of Matthew.

At the time of the Feast of Tabernacles, the people went up to
Jerusalem to offer gifts in the golden Temple for the harvest that the
Lord had given them, and to join in a praise service there.

They brought oil, and wine, and wheat, and barley; dates, pomegranates,
and figs--something of all they had gathered, and while they marched
toward the holy city they sang joyful songs that David had written long
before. When they reached Jerusalem they built bowers of branches cut
from the trees and lived in them for a week.

Even in the city the people came out of their houses and lived in
bowers on the streets and public squares, or upon the flat roofs of the
houses, and the hillsides round were covered with the green booths.

The brothers of Jesus came down to Capernaum on their way to the Feast
at Jerusalem, and they asked their elder Brother to go also into Judea
and show Himself to the world, that His miracles might be seen of all,
for they did not believe in Him yet. But Jesus said,

"My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready."

So they went on their journey, and Jesus stayed in Galilee.

After a few days He set His face toward Jerusalem, taking the shortest
way through Sa