grieved him by their ignorance and unbelief. If any of us had been in his place, we should have said, “You set of stupids, we cannot bear with you any longer.” But our loving Lord did not talk like that; after he had told them the truth twenty times, and yet they did not know it, he went on in the same fashion, and told it to them again and again until they did know it. As he was so patient with his disciples, it ill becomes us, who are ourselves so imperfect, to say concerning any of our fellow-Christians,