to Jericho into his office, and saying to his chief clerk: "I wish you would make out that man's account, I want to find out how much I have taxed him."

He looks over the account, and says: "We have taxed him $100 too much."

Zaccheus replies, "Make out a check for $400 and send it to him.”

Don't you believe all Jericho had confidence in Zaccheus's conversion as these checks went flying round? That was the most powerful way to prove it. If there is a man here that has defrauded some one, don't let him think he can get into heaven till he makes restitution. If you have taken that which don't belong to you, don't think that God is going to hear your prayer. You needn't come to these meetings, and sing and pray, and think you are going to cover it up. God's eyes look down and see it. If you want the blessing of God to come upon you and your family, do all in your power to make restitution; then Christ will come into your home as he did into the home of Zaccheus. He not only blessed Zaccheus himself, but Zaccheus's wife, Mrs. Zaccheus, and all the little Zaccheuses too.

While Christ was a guest with Zaccheus, the Pharisees were grumbling and finding fault that he had gone to be a guest of a publican, and it was on this memorable occasion Christ uttered the text I have read to-night: "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.'

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MARY OF BETHANY.

N the closing chapters of John's Gospel we have many of the last words and acts of our Lord and Saviour, and they ought to be very precious to us.

You know when we lose a friend how much we think of his last words. When I went East a few weeks ago, to lay my brother in the grave, the very first thing I wanted to know was, what were his last words, and then I went all over the farm to see the last works he had done.

I want to call your attention to these words: "Then Jesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany."

He knew that the chief priests had been searching every-where for him, and had given orders that if any knew where he was they should show it; but no one was able to take him until he gave himself up of his own accord. The officers sent to arrest him went back without him; and when the chief priests asked, "Why have ye not brought him?" they said, “Never man spake like this man." Nobody could take him till he gave himself up, and here is another proof of our Lord's divinity.

When he came to Bethany they made him a supper; and while they sat at the table Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very precious, worth forty or fifty dollars, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. Judas Iscariot complained of the

waste of the ointment; but Jesus said, "Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this."

There was a feast at this time in Jerusalem, and people were very much excited over the raising of Lazarus. There is no reason to suppose that any body, not even the Jews, who were his bitterest enemies, ever disputed that Lazarus had been raised from the dead; but there are a good many people here in Chicago who say they doubt it.

Now let us look at what Mary did. There are a good many rich men who try to do something to hand down. their name to posterity. They give large sums of money to have a library or a town named after them, and in fifty years' time nobody knows whether the town was named after a man or a mountain. But of this act of Mary Jesus says, "Wherever this Gospel shall be preached, this that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her." As some one has said, "He chained her name to the Gospel chariot, and it has rolled down the ages."

My friends, if you want to be immortal go and do something for Christ.

There was a poor widow one day came up to the temple, (perhaps she had two or three children clinging to her dress,) and put into the contribution-box two mites, which make a farthing. I suppose the Jerusalem papers, if they had any, came out the next morn. ing with brilliant accounts of the great collection up at the temple, for there were a good many rich men whc.* gave, some a hundred and some a thousand dollars, but the Saviour said that the poor widow had given more

than they all. There isn't any thing on record of what the rich men gave, but the gift of the widow will never be forgotten.

Now I suppose that Mary did this out of gratitude to the Saviour, who had raised her brother from the dead. Her heart was full of thanksgiving; nothing was too good to show it. Has not the Lord raised up some one of your brothers, a son, or a husband, or a friend, and what have you ever done to prove your gratitude to him on account of it?

Here is another thing I want to call your attention to: it was his feet and not his head that Mary anointed.

There are a great many people who are willing to get to the head of Christ, but are not willing to be at his feet. Young men go to Princeton, and Yale, and Harvard, and to the theological seminaries; but I tell you if a minister don't go to the feet of Jesus he can't preach. We have got to do just as Mary did-sit at the feet of Jesus, and learn of him. That is God's college, and all the other learning in the world will never do you any good unless you learn in that school.