The heart of Moses was full of that wonderful new word, atonement. For many days Jehovah had been speaking to him about it. But he seemed to feel that on this occasion, the blood of goats and bulls could not avail to put away the black transgression of his people. Then there arose within him the

noble resolve to which he gave expression, when he returned by the well-worn path to the summit of Sinal.

His voice was very broken as he commenced to plead. Mark that unfinished sentence, “If thou wilt forgive their sm—!” It was arrested by a burst of uncontrollable emotion. Can we finish it? “If thou wilt forgive, thou wilt act worthily of thyself and bind us to thee forever; but if not, and if the blood of beasts does not avail, tet. me be their atoning sacrifice, and blot me from thy book!” See Rom. 9:1-3, R. V