“There is no place where earth’s sorrows
    Are more felt than up in heaven;
  There is no place where earth’s failings
    Have such kindly judgments given.

  “There is plentiful redemption
    In the blood that has been shed;
  There is joy for all the members
    In the sorrows of the head.

  “If our love were but more simple,
    We should take him at his word;
  And our lives would all be sunshine,
    In the sweetness of our Lord.”

The prophet Isaiah foretold that when Jesus came, he would teach his doctrines to children just weaned.  Chap. xxviii:  9.  This shows us that his teaching was to be marked by great plainness and simplicity.  And this was just the way in which he did teach when he uttered those loving words:—­“Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.” Mark x:  14.  None of the other famous teachers known to the world ever took such interest in children as Jesus did.  And none of them ever taught with such great simplicity.  What multitudes of young people have been led to love and serve Jesus by thinking of the sweet words he spoke about children!

“The Child’s Gospel.”  A little girl sat still in church listening to the minister.  She could not understand what he was saying till he quoted these words of Jesus about the children.  But she understood them.  She felt that they were words spoken for her.  They made her feel very happy.  And when she went home she threw her arms around her mother’s neck, who had been kept at home by sickness, and said, “O, mother, I have heard the child’s gospel to-day.”

“It’s For Me.”  Little Carrie was a heathen child, about ten years old.  After she had been going to the Mission School for some time, her teacher noticed, one day, that she looked sad.

“Carrie, my dear,” she said, “why do you look so sad to-day?”

“Because I am thinking.”

“And what are you thinking about?”

“O, teacher, I don’t know whether Jesus loves me, or not.”

“Carrie, what did Jesus say about little children coming to him when he was on earth?”

In a moment the sweet words she had learned in the school were on her lips—­“Suffer the little children to come unto me, &c.”

“Well, Carrie, for whom did Jesus speak these words?” At once she clapped her hands and exclaimed:  “It’s not for you, teacher, is it? for you are not a child.  No:  it’s for me! it’s for me!”

And so this dear child was drawn to Jesus by the power of his love.  And thus, through all the hundreds of years that have passed away since “Jesus was here among men,” these same simple words have been drawing the little ones to him.

And so, because of the great simplicity which marked his teaching, Jesus must truly be called—­the Great Teacher.

But in the third place there was—­GREAT TENDERNESS—­in Jesus, and this was another thing that helped to make him the Great Teacher.