...from them;" it was their own prejudice, their own stubbornness, their own sin ; as our Lord said unto Jerusalem, " How often would I have gathered thy children...chickens under her wings, and ye would not ! " It is thus, also, that we, at the present moment, address our hearers ; we come as the ministers of reconciliation,...

...vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ? " said also, and almost with the same breath, " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . how often would I have...chickens under her wings, and ye would not." It was to the same Peter that He once declared, "Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona," and then but a few moments...