Part 23 (2/2)

--_Mrs Stowe_

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_St Luke, xxiv, 29_--”Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent”

(Two of the disciples to our Lord on the way to Emmaus)

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST

The following description is alleged to be derived from an ancient manuscript sent by Publius Lentellus, President of Judea, to the Senate of Roular character, whose name is Jesus Christ The barbarians esteem Him as their prophet; but His followers adore Hi of the immortal God He is endoith such unparalleled virtue as to call back the dead froraves and to heal every kind of disease with a word or a touch His person is tall and elegantly shaped; His aspect, amiable and reverend; His hair flows in those beauteous shades which no united colors can reeably couching on His shoulders, and parting on the crown of His head; His dress, that of the sect of Nazarites; His forehead is se; His cheeks without blemish, and of roseate hue; His nose and mouth are formed with exquisite symmetry; His beard is thick and suitable to the hair of His head, reaching a little below His chin, and parting in the ht, and serene

”He rebukes with uage--His whole address, whether in word or deed, being elegantly grave, and strictly characteristic of so exalted a being No h, but the whole world beholds Him weep frequently, and so persuasive are His tears that the wholein sympathy with Him He is moderate, temperate, and wise; in short, whatever the phenomenon may turn out in the end, He seems at present to be a man of excellent beauty and Divine perfection, every way surpassing man”

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LAST SUPPER

To turn one's back on the Me, andof all our Saviour's commandments It is not needful to know just how obedience will help us It is enough to know that it was His dying command that we keep it till He coht to profess the na to do the deeds of Christ

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Our Saviour is represented everywhere in Scripture as the special patron of the poor and afflicted

--_Atterbury_

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IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER?

_Mark, vi, 3_

Yes, yes, a Carpenter, same trade as mine

It warms my heart as I read that line

I can stand the hard work, I can stand the poor pay, For I'll see that Carpenter at no distant day