And like a flash, she remembered the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, and she said, "Did you ever hear this?" And found herself able to repeat it to him word for word: "Two men went up into the Temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican. "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are . . . "And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other." [Illustration: HE SPREAD THE ONE TALENT OUT BEFORE HIM.] As the lady finished that parable, which God had so wonderfully helped her to repeat, the train began to slow down at the next station. The man gathered up his things, came to her side and shook her hand warmly. "Thank you very much," he said earnestly, "for what you have said!" And then he jumped out, and the train took the lady on to her destination. All of us are given Talents, according to our several abilities. Whatever it is—let each one of us do what we can to tell others of God's love in giving us a Saviour; and if we do, surely—yes, surely—God will say to us, "Well done, good and faithful servants, enter into the joy of your Lord!" XXXIII. Hid in Three Measures of Meal One day the Lord Jesus gave a very short Parable to His disciples of only one verse, but He would not have told it to us, if He had not intended us to learn a lesson from it. I will copy the verse for you, because it is so very short, and then I will explain it afterwards. [Illustration: THE LEAVEN IN THE MEAL.] "The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." Leaven is what we now call yeast. In the dictionary, leaven, or yeast, is described as something "which pervades a mass, and changes its nature." And so we will think of it in that light, and try to draw out from it something which may help us every day. If the Kingdom of Heaven is hidden in our hearts, then it ought to pervade our whole lives. I have seen an untidy woman, and an untidy home, perfectly transformed by the love of God, and her desire to please Him. A year or two ago, I knew a woman who had become rather fond of drink. All at once she found that if she wanted to enter into "the Kingdom of Heaven," that temptation must be left off. So she told the Lord Jesus all about it, and then she left it off in the strength which He gave her; and she said to me: "I have never taken any since!" So she found, like many others whom I have known, that when "the Kingdom of Heaven" takes possession of our hearts, our whole nature becomes changed, and we try to live to God's glory! In the same chapter in Matthew, the thirteenth, that has in it the Parable about the leaven, our Lord gives us another picture of "the Kingdom of Heaven."