We are tempted to suppose that, were the Messiah now a sojourner upon our globe, he could bend more easily to our circumstances and more tenderly enter into them. We could let down the paralytic in his presence. We could bear our young child to him. We could draw him into the death-chamber of our little daughter. We could supplicate him for our servant lying sick. Earthly proximity seems to secure success. "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died." Ah, "slow of heart to believe!" Has he forgotten to be gracious? Does he refuse to hear? Has he forsaken the earth? Nothing will he now forbear to do which he would not forbear, if still he "dwelt among us."

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