and found again. 299

she added. ‘He always meant to

 

die for us. We are so bad; we
couldn’t ever have gone up to live
with God if He hadn’t. All the
people in the world deserve to be
sent away from God, you know ; but
don’t you remember the hymn that I
say every morning, tells us that

“ Out of pity, Jesus said

He'd bear our punishment instead.”’

‘Me sink Jesus was very good,
gooder than anybody,’ answered the
little laddie ; ‘ but me wouldn’t have
killed Him. Me couldn’t be so bad.’

‘Ah, you don’t know; if you do
little bad things now, when you are
big, you will do great bad things,’
said May, sagely.