Ah! I know by your smile that you are only
saying it to tease me. It is a beautiful story, papa, about
Christian: how he lived in the City of Destruction, and had a
great burden on his back, which he tried in every way to get rid
of, but all in vain, until he came to the Cross; but then it
seemed suddenly to loosen of itself, and dropped from his back,
and rolled away, and fell into the sepulchre, where it could not
be seen any more."
"Well, and is not _that_ a foolish story? can you see any
sense or meaning in it?" he asked, with a slight smile, and a keen
glance into the eager little face upturned to his.
"Ah! papa, I know what it means," she answered, in a half-
sorrowful tone. "Christian, with the load on his back, is a person
who has been convinced of sin by God's Holy Spirit, and feels his
sins a heavy burden--too heavy for him to bear; and then he tries
to get rid of them by leaving off his wicked ways, and by doing
good deeds; but he soon finds he can't get rid of his load that
way, for it only grows heavier and heavier, until at last he gives
up trying to save himself, and just goes to the cross of Jesus
Christ; and the moment he looks to Jesus and trusts in Him, his
load of sin is all gone.
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