patieiifty merely because He could not avoid them. They were not borne without a murmur merely because He could not escape them. He lived a humble life for thirty-three years because He loved to do so. He died a death of agony with a willing and a ready mind. Both in life and death He was carrying out the eternal coun- sel whereby God was to be glorified and sinners were to be saved. He carried it out with aU His heart, mighty as the struggle was which it entailed on His flesh and blood. He delighted to do Gbd's will. He was strait- ened till it was accomplished.
Let us not doubt that the heart of Christ in heaven is the same that it was when He was upon earth. He feels as deep an interest now about the salvation of sinners as He did formerly about dying in their stead. Jesus never changes. He is the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever. Th^e is in Him an infinite wiUingness to receive, pardon, justify, and deliver the souls of men from hell. Let us strive to realize that willingness, and learn to believe it without doubting, and repose on it without fear. It is a certain fact, if men would only believe it, that Christ is far more wilHng to save us than we are to be saved.
Let the zeal of our Lord and Master be an example to all His people. Let the recollection of EQs burning readiness to die for us be lik0 a glowing coal in our memories, and constrain us to five to Him, and not to ourselves. Surely the thought of it should waken our deeping hearts, and warm our cold affections, and make us anxious to redeem the time, and do something for His praise. A zealous Saviour ought to have zealous disciples.
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