By the blood of Christ we mean his suffering unto death, the obedience which made him yield His life, and especially the will of His soul to suffer and the object of His mind in suffering. It is a very remarkable fact, which I have heard asserted by many teachers, that children will learn to read out of the Bible better than from any other book. I scarcely know why; it may, perhaps, be on account of the simplicity of the language; but I believe it is so. I believe there are thousands of men who could
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