Excerpt from Words of Good Cheer At the very last with the remembrance of his own Sins and with the sight of the awful majesty of the Divine Sufferer by his side, cried, all but with his latest breath, for mercy, and received a promise which must have flooded his poor fainting soul with light and joy; because I can tell how He who has sent me drew strange startling pictures of a free and bountiful forgiveness in the Prodigal Son, and in the servant who, owing the ten thousand talents, fell down and cried for mercy, and was freely forgiven all. These are Old well-worn stories to you, my friends. If you heard them for the first time, they would fill you with amazement at the richness and freedom of the pardon. But there are some, and not a few, in this very city, who have never yet heard these things. And, if I can tell them such things as these, am I wrong to preface my telling with the Be of good cheer Nay, Jesus, the Master in whose Name I would go to them, to whom I would bring them if I might, is full of love, and in His wealth of love came down to save a lost world. Be of good cheer Behold, He is Love, for God is Love, and He is God. He that hath seen the Son hath. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.