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their own received them not. Though called and called again, men turned in preference to their farms and their merchandise. So little, indeed, could they brook interference with their worldly interests, that they laid violent hands on the prophets of old and Apostles and martyrs of later days, and having treated them contumeliously, put them to death. Aye, when God sent even His only Son, hoping they would revere and obey His commands, the world hung Him as a felon on the cross. Then it was that the anger of the King of Icings burst forth. Mercy gave place to justice, and sending His army He destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Thirty-seven years after the Saviour's Ascension, the Roman legions under Vespasian and his son Titus invaded Palestine and besieged Jerusalem. Not only in the parable we have read, but in distinct prophetic words the Saviour had foretold it all — on that memorable day when standing on Olivet's slope, turning His streaming eyes to Jerusalem, He said: "The day shall come upon thee, and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round and straighten thee on every side, and beat thee flat to the ground and thy children who are in thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation." When the Apostles boastingly pointed out to Him the beauties of the Temple, He answered: " Amen, I say to you, there shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed." When on the march to Calvary the women of Jeru-