ear.

"I leave it all with Jesus,
Trust him for what must be;
I leave it all with Jesus,
Who ever thinks of me.

"I bring it all to Jesus,
In calm, believing prayer;
I bring it all to Jesus,
And I love to LEAVE it there!

"Each tear, each sigh, each trouble,
Each disappointment,--all
I love to GIVE to Jesus,
Who loves to TAKE them all."

And here we have a beautiful illustration of one of the things which
Jesus taught us in his parables, namely--_the value of religion_.

_Another thing we are taught in these parables is_--CHRIST'S LOVE FOR
SINNERS.

The parable of the lost sheep teaches us this truth: but as we had
occasion to speak of this in our last chapter, when illustrating the
tenderness of Christ, as the Great Teacher, we may let that pass now.
But the parable of the lost piece of money teaches the same lesson.
We have this parable in St. Luke xv: 8th and 9th verses. Here we are
told of a woman who had ten pieces of silver, and lost one of them.
Then she laid the others aside, and searched diligently for the lost
piece till she found it. This woman represents Jesus. The lost piece
of money represents our souls lost by sin. The efforts of the woman
to find the lost piece represent what Jesus did, when he left heaven,
and took our nature upon him, and came as "the Son of man to _seek
and to save that which was lost_." And it was the love of Jesus for
poor sinners which led him to do all this for us. And everything
connected with the history of Jesus when he was on earth shows the
greatness of his love. Think of Bethlehem and its manger; there we
see the love of Jesus. Think of Gethsemane with its bloody sweat;
there we see the love of Jesus. Think of Calvary with its cross of
shame and agony; for _there_ we see the love of Jesus.

And the parable of the prodigal son teaches us the same lesson. We
read of this in the same chapter, St. Luke xv: 11-32. This son had
been disobedient and ungrateful. He had taken the money his father
gave him and had gone away and spent it in living very wickedly. And
when the money was all spent and he was likely to starve, he went
back to his father, hungry and ragged, and asked to be taken in. And
instead of scolding and punishing him as he deserved, as soon as his
father saw him, he ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him; and took
off his rags, and dressed him in good clothes, and made a great feast
for him. How beautifully this par