'_Again, the next day after, John stood, and two of his disciples, and looking upon Jesus as He walked, he said, Behold the Lamb of God._' The words, '_which taketh away the sin of the world_,' are not repeated, at least not in the best manuscripts. They had been spoken once. Now the Lamb of God had been connected with a new and higher name. John had borne record that this was the _Son_ of God. All the dignity and wonder of the former title were attached to Him still. There was an awe about _this_ which must have made the disciples wonder, but yet which attracted them. '_They heard him speak, and they followed Jesus._' The story of their intercourse is most simple. There is no mysterious concealment; there are no surprising incidents. '_Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto Him, Rabbi, (which is, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest Thou? He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where He dwelt, and abode with Him that day; for it was about the tenth hour._' What is there in such a record to detain us for an instant? Only _this_, brethren; it is the beginning of the history of Christendom, of the whole new world. This meeting of these two men--one of whose names we do not know, the other whom we do know to have been a Galilæan fisherman--with Jesus of Nazareth is the first step in a movement which has in some way or other changed the life, polity, relations of mankind. If it is so, we may consider with ourselves, in some quiet hour, _why_ it is so? Perhaps we may find some other explanation than that which St. John gives--that the Man to whom these disciples came was the Light of men, and that He proved, by contact with those who had least light of their own, that He was _their_ Light. Or perhaps we may find that interpretation, on the whole, the best: and then we shall not seek further, but lay that to heart.