“I Like Your Jesus.”  An English lady who had spent six months in Syria, writes:  “Going through the places where the Mohammedans live, you continually hear the girls singing our beautiful hymns in Arabic.  The attractive power of Christ’s love is felt even by the little ones, as we learned from a dear Moslem child, who, when she repeated the text, ‘Suffer the little children,’ said, ’I like your Jesus, because he loved little children.  Our Mohammed did not love little children.’”

And if we all try to imitate the tenderness of Jesus, then, though we may have no money to give, and no great thing to do, yet by being tender, and gentle, and loving, as Jesus was, we shall be able to do good wherever we are.

“Doing Good by Sympathy.”  A Christian mother used to ask her children every night if they had done any good during the day.  One night in answer to this question, her little daughter said:  “At school this morning I found little Annie G——­, who had been absent for some time, crying very hard.  I asked her what was the matter?  Then she cried more, so that I could not help putting my head on her neck, and crying with her.  Her sobs grew less, and presently she told of her little baby brother, whom she loved so much; how sick he had been; and how much pain he had suffered, till he died and was buried.  Then she hid her face in her book, and cried, as if her heart would break.  I could not help putting my face on the other page of the book, and crying, too, as hard as she did.  After awhile she kissed me, and told me I had done her good.  But, mother, I don’t know how I did her good; for I only cried with her!”

Now this little girl was showing the tenderness of Jesus, the Great Teacher.  Nothing in the world could have done that poor sorrowing child so much good as to have some one cry with her.  Sometimes tears of tenderness are worth more than diamonds.  And this is why the Bible tells us to “weep with them that weep.”  Rom. xii:  15.  Jesus did this in the tenderness of his loving heart.  And this was one of the things that made him the Great Teacher.

But then there was—­GREAT KNOWLEDGE—­in Jesus; and this was another thing that made him great as a teacher.

If we wish to be good teachers, we must study, and try to understand the things we expect to teach.  If a young man wishes to be a minister, he must go through college; and then spend three years in the Divinity School, so that he may understand the great truths of the Bible, which he is to teach the people who hear him.  But Jesus never went to college, or to a divinity school.  And yet he had greater knowledge about all the things of which he spoke than any other teacher ever had.  We are told in the book of Job that “He is perfect in knowledge.”  Job xxxvi:  5.  And the apostle Paul tells us that “in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”  Col. ii:  3.  This is more than can be said of any man, or