That better part,
    Nor dare refuse
    The Lord thy heart,
    Lest he declare,—­
    ‘I know you not,’
    And deep despair
    Should be your lot. 
    Now look to Jesus, who on Calvary died,
    And trust on him who there was crucified.”

“Leaving it All with Jesus.”  Annie W ... was a young Christian.  In her fourteenth year she was taken with a severe illness, from which the doctor said she could not recover.  When she became too weak to leave the sofa, she would send for one and another of the neighbors to come in to see her, and then she would speak to them of Jesus and his great salvation.  One day a poor old woman who was not a Christian, came in to see her.

“You are very ill, my dear,” she said to Annie.

“Yes,” she replied, “but I shall soon be well.”

The poor woman shook her head as she looked at Annie’s mother, saying, “Poor dear creature; she cannot possibly get well.  No:  she will never get over it.”  Then turning to Annie, she said: 

“Don’t you know, my dear, that you are going to die?”

“I know I am going to live,” she said with a sweet smile.  “I shall soon be with Jesus in heaven, and live forever with him.”

“Oh, how can you know that, my dear?  We must not be too sure you know,” said the poor woman.

“Oh,” said Annie, pointing to a card hanging on the wall, near her bed, on which was printed in large letters the hymn headed—­“I leave it all with Jesus.”  “That’s what I do!  That’s what I do.”  These are the words of the hymn which gave that dear child so much comfort on her dying bed: 

  “I leave it all with Jesus,
    Then wherefore should I fear? 
  I leave it all with Jesus,
    And he is ever near.

  “I leave it all with Jesus,
    Trust him for what must be;
  I leave it all with Jesus,
    Who ever thinks of me.

  “I bring it all to Jesus,
    In calm, believing prayer;
  I bring it all to Jesus,
    And I love to LEAVE it there!

  “Each tear, each sigh, each trouble,
    Each disappointment,—­all
  I love to GIVE to Jesus,
    Who loves to TAKE them all.”

And here we have a beautiful illustration of one of the things which Jesus taught us in his parables, namely—­the value of religion.

Another thing we are taught in these parables is—­CHRIST’S LOVE FOR SINNERS.

The parable of the lost sheep teaches us this truth:  but as we had occasion to speak of this in our last chapter, when illustrating the tenderness of Christ, as the Great Teacher, we may let that pass now.  But the parable of the lost piece of money teaches the same lesson.  We have this parable in St. Luke xv:  8th and 9th verses.  Here we are told of a woman who had ten pieces of silver, and lost one of them.  Then she laid the others aside, and searched diligently for the lost piece till she