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1. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.
2. They whom Jesus looks on mourn their misdeeds. St. Peter at first denied, yet wept not, for the Lord had not looked on him: St. Peter a second time denied, yet wept not, for the Lord hitherto had not looked on him: he denied a third time, and Jesus looked on him, and then he wept most bitterly.
3. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the word of God, of his boundless love, became what we are that he might make us what he himself is.
4. Wherever Jesus sits, there is the head of the table.
5. Those who die in Jesus live a larger, fuller, nobler life, by the very cessation of care, change, strife, and struggle.
6. He is the Author of the new creation; the Way, the Truth, and the Life; the Prophet, Priest, and King of regenerate humanity. He is Immanuel, God with us; the Eternal Word become flesh; very God and very man in one undivided person, the Saviour of the world.
7. The Person of Christ is to me the surest as well as the most sacred of all facts; as certain as my own personal existence; yea, even more so: for Christ lives in me, and He is the only valuable part of my existence. I am nothing without my Savior; I am all with Him, and would not exchange Him for the whole world.
8. What do ye think of the Son of Man? This is the religious question of the age.
9. Christ is our star of Hope. I want my death-bed to be under that star.
10. He used to talk to farmers about corn and mustard, wheat and tares, sheep and goats, and such like matters, all purely agricultural, and which they thoroughly understood. He used to talk to fishermen about matters widely different, and such as belonged to their craft---nets and fishes; to gardeners about vines and fig trees; to women about domestic matters, such as come within their province---kneading dough and sweeping houses. By means of these familiar figures He teaches lessons unheard of before---lessons of Divine wisdom, of supreme value, of sweet interest, of infinite love, and of eternal importance.
