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from Nazareth to Calvary was but a new and stronger proof of the love of God for men. So, too, was the love of God diffused in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who was given to us, for from the price Christ paid for it we began to realize how precious in the sight of God our love must be. It was as though we had found a precious gem, and, ignorant of its value, were ready to part with it, like Esau, for a mess of pottage, when the Saviour opened our eyes to its true worth and we determined that nor honors, nor riches, nor pleasures, nor life, nor death should ever part us from the love of God. And this revelation of God's love was made to all. Many, indeed, refuse to see, and many there are that sleep, but still Christ shines, as does the sun, for all. He was born for all, He died for all, and the Gospel messages have been borne to all. "For their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." The Mosaic law was for the Jews alone, but the four Gospels, like the four rivers of paradise, swept round the world, overflowed their banks, and renewed the face of the earth. To every class the knowledge of Christ's birth was given: to the man Joseph and to the woman Mary; to the Jewish shepherds and the Gentile Magi; to aged Simeon and to John unborn; to Mary the Virgin, Anna the widow, and Elizabeth the wife; to the wise and the ignorant, the great and the lowly, the rich and the poor. In His Passion and death there played a part Jews and Gentiles, kings and commoners, priests and laics, learned and unlettered, friends