His
sight. Do you take good care of those souls? You clothe your
children, you feed them, you educate them; yes, but do you take care of
their _souls_? Do you educate them for Heaven? Do you give them that
best of all teaching--a good example? What if our children fall
through our fault, because we have set no good pattern before them!
What if they never get to Heaven because they have never seen _us_
walking in the right way! God grant that these solemn thoughts may
sink deeply into our hearts, and bear fruit of amendment, before the
day when God shall say to me who preach, and you who hearken--"Give an
account of thy stewardship."

SERMON XLV.

THE TEARS OF CHRIST.

(Tenth Sunday after Trinity.)

S. LUKE xix. 41.

"He beheld the city, and wept over it."

The saddest sight, save one, in the history of the world is that
pictured in the text--the Son of God weeping over the city which God
had chosen to put His Name there. Let us, in fancy, to-day look upon
the scene on which our Saviour looked, and recall the history of that
city which had lost sight of the things concerning her peace. No other
city in the world, not even Rome, has such a wonderful story as
Jerusalem. Looking back into the past we see the city as the
stronghold of the heathen Jebusites, perched on her rocky crest, and
holding out when every other fenced city had yielded to the arms of
David. The Jebusites were the last old inhabitants of the land to give
place to the conqueror; they trusted in the marvellous strength of
their position, where "they had made their nest in a rock." They
trusted in "the everlasting gates," which had never been forced by an
invader; and they declared boastfully that the blind and the lame were
strong enough to defend their citadel, and that David should not come
in thither. But, as we know, the day came when David attacked the
city, and declared that the man who first smote the Jebusites should be
chief and captain, and that man was Joab. Still looking back over the
past, we see David solemnly consecrating the once heathen city to the
God of his Fathers. The Ark, the most sacred treasure which Israel
possessed, was brought home with solemn state and loud rejoicing after
its long exile. As the procession of Priests and Levites, with the
king and his chief captains, wound up the steep ascent, there rose the
famous shout which Israel had so often uttered in the wilderness--"Let
God arise, and let