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coming out of the temple and crying: &quot;Send forth Rev . xiv:15 



thy sickle and reap : for the hour to reap is come ; 



for the harvest of the earth is over-ripe.&quot; Then 



the stern injunctions, against too long delay in 



one place: &quot;Go not from house to house,&quot; 



&quot;But into whatsoever city ye shall enter and they 



receive you not, go out into the streets thereof 



and say, even the dust of your city, that cleave th Luke x.-n 



to our feet, we do wipe off against you; howbeit 



know this, that the Kingdom of God is come 



nigh.&quot; These are grave and weighty words 



which we dare interpret only in the light, and by 



the guidance, of the Holy Spirit as He reveals unto 



us the promised treasures of the perfect mind of 



Christ; but this at least we may say, our Lord 



exhibited, on more than one occasion, a keen 



sensitiveness, coupled with a divine dignity and 



reserve, towards those who repeatedly and 



insultingly rejected His claims and message. Lukex:i6 



&quot;He that heareth you,&quot; he said, &quot;heareth Me; 



and he that rejecteth you rejecteth Me; and he 



that rejecteth Me rejecteth Him that sent Me.&quot; 



The second, the Intel-mediate Statement, is the The inter- 

 climax of the teaching of the parable of the Good statement 

 Shepherd. Note the gradation; the thief climb- 

 eth into the fold that he may kill and destroy; 

 the hireling entereth by the door, but he is never 

 theless an hireling whose interest is centred in his 

 hire and not in the flock; the Shepherd careth for 

 the sheep ; but the Good Shepherd giveth for them 

 His life. He layeth it down, and He taketh it 

 again. His laying it down represents His ere- 



