included in the Father’s gift to his Son. The Father gave Him all those who in the fulness of times should come. But why some have an affinity with the Man of the cross, and not others; why some come and others stay away; why some sheep hear the Shepherd’s voice and follow, while others persist in straying, is one of those secrets which are not revealed as yet to the children of men. But as the eye of omniscient love glanced down the ages, it must have lighted with peculiar pleasure on the eager,