st either die, or get somebody to die for me; and in the fulness of
time Christ comes forward to die for the sinner. He was without sin;
but if He had committed one sin, He would have had to die for His own
sin. The life of the flesh is in the blood; and it is not blood He
demands really; it is life, and life has been forfeited. We have
sinned, and death must come, or justice must take its course. Glory to
God in the highest because He sent His Son, born of a woman, to take
our nature and die in our stead, tasting death for every man. You take
this blood out of this body of mine, and life is gone.

GOD DEMANDS BLOOD.

He demands life. Man has sinned; therefore life must be forfeited, and
I must die, or find somebody to die for me. My friends, I have only
just touched this subject. If you read your Bibles carefully you will
find the scarlet thread running through the Bible. It commenced in
Eden and flows on to Revelation. I cannot find anything to tell me the
way to heaven

BUT BY THE BLOOD.

This book (holding up the Bible) wouldn't be worth carrying home if
you take the scarlet thread out of it; and it doesn't teach anything
else; for the blood commences in Genesis, and goes on to Revelation.
That is what this book is written for. It tells its own story; and if
a man should come and preach another gospel, don't you believe him. If
an angel should come and preach anything else, don't believe it. Don't
trifle with the subject of the Blood. In your dying hour you would
give more to be sheltered behind this Blood than for all the world.

A MOTHER'S LOVE.

In the time of the Californian gold fever a man went to the diggings,
and left his wife to follow him some time afterwards. While on her
voyage with her little boy, the vessel caught fire; and as there was a
powder-magazine on board, the captain knew when the flames reached it
the ship would be blown up. The fire could not be got under, so they
took to the life-boats; but there was not room for all. As the last
boat pushed off, the mother and boy stood on the deck. One of the
sailors said there was room for another. What did the mother do? She
decided to perish herself in order to save her boy. She dropped him
into the boat, and with a mother's last look, said: "If you should
live to see your father, tell him that I died in your place." Do you
think when that boy grew up he could fail to love that mother who died
to save him? My friends, this is a faint type of wha