rshiped_ Him, saying, Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst
make me clean."

In Matthew xv. 25: "Then came she, and _worshiped_ Him, saying, Lord,
help me!"

There are many other passages; but I give these as sufficient in my
opinion to prove beyond any doubt the Divinity of our Lord.

In the 14th chapter of Acts we are told the heathen at Lystra came
with garlands and would have done sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas
because they had cured an impotent man; but the evangelists rent
their clothes and told these Lystrans that they were but men, and not
to be worshipped; as if it were a great sin. And if Jesus Christ is a
mere man, we are all guilty of a great sin in worshipping Him.

But if He is, as we believe, the only-begotten and well-beloved Son
of God, let us yield to His claims upon us; let us rest on His
all-atoning work, and go forth to serve Him all the days of our life.

CHAPTER VI.

_REPENTANCE AND RESTITUTION_.

"God commandeth all men everywhere to repent."--Acts xvii. 30.

Repentance is one of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible. Yet I
believe it is one of those truths that many people little understand
at the present day. There are more people to-day in the mist and
darkness about Repentance, Regeneration, the Atonement, and such-like
fundamental truths, than perhaps on any other doctrines. Yet from our
earliest years we have heard about them. If I were to ask for a
definition of Repentance, a great many would give a very strange and
false idea of it.

A man is not prepared to believe or to receive the Gospel, unless he
is ready to repent of his sins and turn from them. Until John the
Baptist met Christ, he had but one text, "Repent ye; for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand" (Matt. iii. 2). But if he had continued to say
this, and had stopped there without pointing the people to Christ the
Lamb of God, he would not have accomplished much.

When Christ came, He took up the same wilderness cry, "Repent; for
the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matt. iv. 17). And when our Lord
sent out His disciples, it was with the same message, "that men
should repent" (Mark vi. 12). After He had been glorified, and when
the Holy Ghost came down, we find Peter on the day of Pentecost
raising the same cry, "Repent!" It was this preaching--Repent, and
believe the Gospel--that wrought such marvellous results then. (Acts
ii. 38-47). And we find that, when Paul went to Athens, he uttered
the same cry, "_Now_ God com