nety days; if he is well able to pay,
the banker will perhaps lend him the money if he can get another
responsible man to sign the note with him. They give what they call
three days' grace after the sixty or ninety days have expired; but
they will make the borrower pay interest on the money during these
three days, and if he does not return principal and interest at the
appointed time, they will sell his goods; they will perhaps turn him
out of his house, and take the last piece of furniture in his
possession. That is not grace at all; but that fairly illustrates
man's idea of it. Grace not only frees you from payment of the
interest, but of the principal also.

ITS SOURCE.

In the Gospel by John we read, "The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth . . . For the law was given
by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." Now you know
that for many years men were constantly trying to find the source of
the Nile. The river of grace has been flowing through this dark
earth for six thousand years, and we certainly ought to be more
anxious to find out its source than to discover the source of the
Nile. I think if you will read your Bible carefully you will find
that this wonderful river of grace comes right from the very heart
of God.

I remember being in Texas a few years ago, in a place where the
country was very dry and parched. In that dry country there is a
beautiful river that springs right out of the ground. It flows
along; and on both sides of the river you find life and vegetation.
Grace flows like that river; and you can trace its source right up
to the very heart of God. You may say that its highest manifestation
was seen when God gave the Son of His bosom to save this lost world.
"Not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the
offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the
gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto
many."

A FREE GIFT.

Notice, it is the free gift of God. "Grace be unto you, and peace,
from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God
always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by
Jesus Christ." Paul wrote fourteen Epistles; and every one of them
is closed with a prayer for grace. Paul calls it "The free gift of
God." Thousands have been kept out of the kingdom of God because
they d