word and trust His Son this very day--this very hour--this very
moment. He will save you, if you will trust Him. I imagine I hear
some one saying, "I do not feel the bite as much as I wish I did. I
know I am a sinner, and all that; but I do not feel the bite enough."
How much does God want you to feel it?

When I was in Belfast I knew a doctor who had a friend, a leading
surgeon there; and he told me that the surgeon's custom was, before
performing any operation, to say to the patient, "Take a good look at
the wound, and then fix your eyes on me; and do not take them off
till I get through." I thought at the time that was a good
illustration. Sinner, take a good look at your wound; and then fix
your eyes on Christ, and do not take them off. It is better to look
at the Remedy than at the wound. See what a poor wretched sinner you
are; and then look at the Lamb of God who "taketh away the sin of the
world." He died for the ungodly and the sinner. Say "I will take
Him!" And may God help you to lift your eye to the Man on Calvary.
And as the Israelites looked upon the serpent and were healed, so may
you look and live.

After the battle of Pittsburgh Landing I was in a hospital at
Murfreesbro. In the middle of the night I was aroused and told that a
man in one of the wards wanted to see me. I went to him and he called
me "chaplain"--I was not the chaplain--and said he wanted me to help
him die. And I said, "I would take you right up in my arms and carry
you into the kingdom of God if I could; but I cannot do it: I cannot
help you die!" And he said, "Who can?" I said, "The Lord Jesus Christ
can--He came for that purpose." He shook his head, and said, "He
cannot save me; I have sinned all my life." And I said, "But He came
to save sinners." I thought of his mother in the north, and I was
sure that she was anxious that he should die in peace; so I resolved
I would stay with him. I prayed two or three times, and repeated all
the promises I could; for it was evident that in a few hours he would
be gone. I said I wanted to read him a conversation that Christ had
with a man who was anxious about his soul. I turned to the third
chapter of John. His eyes were riveted on me; and when I came to the
14th and 15th verses--the passage before us--he caught up the words,
"As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the
Son of Man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have eternal life." He