Christ the Mediator.

In supposing that a saint is more merciful than God, I

derogate from God's mercy. In imagining that a saint

shall have more influence with God than His own Son, I

suppose His heart is not tender enough to be open to my

cry, without the use of influence, which is, to say the

very least of it, throwing some slur on the infinity of His

mercy and detracting in no small degree from the be-

nignity of His grace. God has one Mediator because

man needed Him. He has no more mediators because

neither God nor manrequiresany. Christ is all-sufficient.

You do need a mediator between yourselves and God, but

* you need none between yourselves and Christ. You may

go to Christ first as you are, with all your filthiness, with

all your sins, for He came to save you irom what you

now are.—SPURGEON,