"I HEARD the voice of Jesus say, Stoop down and drink and live. I came to Jesus, and I drank Of that life-giving stream; My thirst was quenched, my soul revived, And now I live in Him." SIMILITUDES OF CHRIST. I. A WELL OF LIFE. "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water." GEN. xxi. 19. "A well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." H SONG OF SOLOMON, iv. 15. AGAR in the wilderness is a type of the race. Homeless and hopeless, with no water for the child, she "cast him under one of the shrubs, and going a good way off lifted up her voice and wept." Her extremity was God's opportunity; an angel called out of heaven, "Fear not! arise, lift up the lad; and God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water." So to man, despairing and famishing in this wilderness of sin, a voice of mercy cries, encouraging words are spoken, and a well of life is revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord. Prophecy pointed to Him when it said, "The parched ground shall become a pool, |