memory. Spiritual things are so different from the ordinary natural things of man’s life in this world, that they are apt to glide away from the memory. But, when we see their relation to the every-day matters of natural experience, the imagery of the parable makes a striking impression upon our imagination. Truths are thus presented in duplicate; the spirit of the truth is provided with a body of facts, and the body is provided with a spirit of principle. And each side of the truth serves to fix