run to Jesus as if all the running were ours; but the secret truth is that the Lord runs towards us, and this is the very heart of the business.—C. H. S. The mother, as she sits in her house, hears a little one shriek, and knows the voice, and cries out, “Oh! ’tis my child!” Away she throws all she hath in her hands, and runs to her babe. Thus God takes the alarm of his children’s cry. “I heard Ephraim bemoaning himself,” saith the Lord; his cry pierced God’s ear, and his ear affected his bowels,