t is true, a blessed truth; and to him alone, to Jesus who was God and
man both, we must go to get our sins forgiven, and be taught to love
holiness; that holiness without which no man can see the Lord."

"Now mine, papa," said Elsie: "'He that believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life.' Doesn't that mean that to believe on Jesus will take us
to heaven at last--when we die?"

"Yes; and as soon as we really and truly believe on him--trust and love
him, giving ourselves to him and taking him for our Saviour--he gives us a
life that will last forever, so that we will always be his in this world
and in the next, and dying will be but going home to our Father's house on
high, to be forever there with the Lord, and free from sin and suffering
and death."

"Never any more naughtiness, and never any more pain or sickness," said
Elsie thoughtfully. "Oh, how delightful that will be!"

"Yes, and to be with Jesus and like him," said Grace softly. "This is my
verse: 'We love him because he first loved us.'"

"Oh, what love it was!" exclaimed her father. "'Beloved, let us love one
another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God. He
that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.'"

"I have the next three verses, papa," said Lucilla: "'In this was
manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only
begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is
love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be
the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also
to love one another.'"

"Yes," said her father; "if we would be followers of Christ, he must be
our example; he who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth; who,
when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened
not; but committed himself to Him that judgeth righteously: who his own
self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to
sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed."

"What does that mean?" asked little Ned.

"That the dear Lord Jesus suffered in our stead; taking the punishment due
to us for our sins, the punishment we deserved, and letting us have the
life bought with his righteousness and his blood."

"What is righteousness, papa?" asked the little fellow.

"Holiness, goodness. Jesus was perfectly holy, and those who truly love
him will be ever trying to be like him; will go from stren