many miracles of mercy, and by such holiness of life, and so the pearls must not be thrown to the swine. And yet it might be taken to be done in mercy. For there was less guilt in rejecting, or failing to understand, what was enigmatical than what was plain. The enigmatical excited the attention of those whose hearts were prepared, but it left the mass, the unbelieving multitude, in the same state in which they were before. It was to them as an unknown tongue. They listened, and wondered senselessly,