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"While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." - Romans 5:8.

Imagine a number of men whose hearts are filled with bitterness against their sovereign, and, in a certain chamber, are industriously laboring at the construction of an infernal machine, to be exploded on some approaching day when the sovereign is to pass that way. The heart of this sovereign, say, is kindness itself. He receives information of what these men are doing. Disguising himself he comes among them, and succeeds in convincing them that he is friendly, and will prove a valuable confederate. They receive him into their band, initiate him fully into their projects, and take his advice on many points. he soon obtains a great influence over them. They are struck with the superiority of his character, the generosity that beams in all his words and acts. He labors assiduously to do them good; relieves their wants; visits their families that he may confer benefits upon them. His resources appear boundless, but not greater than his beneficence. When injured or insulted, he exhibits an astonishing patience; and in fine, by a purity and magnanimity such as they have never witnessed, he succeeds in inspiring them with the utmost admiration. And day by day he labors with them in perfecting that machine that is to be leveled against himself. They unanimously agree that he shall be their sovereign, when they have killed the reigning one, and that he shall distribute among them the offices of the State just as may seem good to him. At length the day arrives; and as the hour approaches, when the king should pass that way, they wonder what has become of their generous friend. Suddenly he appears among them; throws off his disguise, and the sovereign stands revealed. " I come," he says, " to save you from a great crime, and from a fearful doom. You have already chosen me to be your sovereign, and sworn to submit with delight to all my commands. I command that you shall come and dwell with me in my palace. While you have been preparing this engine for my destruction, I have been preparing sumptuous apartments for your abode. I will associate with you as your friend, even as I have done, and will do my best to fit you to fill the highest offices of State."

Now, the thing that will most surprise these men, is the fact that while they were sinners, while they were laboring for the death of their sovereign, he in secret was earnestly laboring for their highest good. And this is the thing that should most surprise us when we come to Christ, namely, the fact that while we were rearing higher the mountains of our iniquity, he was engaged in carrying out a scheme of the most transcendent mercy and kindness toward us.

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