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Their case is hopeless, death is staring them in the face. What feelings arise in your mind when your eyes rest on such a scene? What shall be the feel— ings of those who gaze on the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ? Then the eye shall affect the heart. It shall be overwhelmed with anguish or filled with joy. Sometimes the object seen may suggest what is affecting. The stillneSS and beauty of a summer evening sky may suggest the calm glory of heaven and that may ravish the soul; or the sight of a furnace may suggest the pit of per- dition and this thought may cloud the soul in gloom and terror.

Jesus saw the city; the sight suggested its state and revealed the future, his soul is saddened, he paused, he thought, he wept. This incident is very instructive. Let me present its lessons by shmving you.

First. The sight beheld. What was it that af- fected our Lord? Was it the external appearance of Jerusalem? Jerusalem was beautiful and now on an evening in April, and filled with people, and just before the feast, must have been charming. But ah, he saw a privileged city. Where in all the earth was there a city so highly favored? The worship of God in it for over one thousand years, saved often by the stretched out arm of Jehovah; long spared, long blessed, long favored. But he saw it at Christ- despising city. There at first dwelt that murderer that ordered the infants to be slain that the infant king might perish with them; there dwelt the chief

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