THE Classmate tells a story of a preacher of the Gospel who had gone down into a coal mine during the noon hour to tell the miners about Jesus Christ. Meeting the foreman, he asked him what he thought of God's way of salvation. "O, it is too cheap; I can not believe in such a religion as that." Without an immediate answer to his remark, the preacher asked: "How do you get out of this place?" "Simply by getting into the cage," was the reply. "Well, that certainly is very easy and simple. But do you not need to help raise yourself?" said the preacher. "Of course not," replied the miner. "As I have said, you have nothing to do but get into the cage." "But what about the people who sank the shaft and perfected all this arrangement; was there much labor about it?" "Indeed, yes; the shaft is eighteen hundred feet deep, and it was sunk at great cost to the proprietor." "Just so; and when God's Word tells you that whosoever believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life, you at once say: 'Too cheap! too cheap!' forgetting that God's work to bring you and others out of the pit of destruction and death was accomplished at a vast cost, the price being the death of His only Son. Men forget that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself purged our sins, and that their part is but to accept what has been done, and thank God for it."