Where our dear Lord was crucified
Who died to save us all."
Melina now knew the hymn all through, and she lifted up her voice with the rest. To her great surprise her grandmother joined in the last verse. "Fancy Gran's singing!" she thought to herself.
"Oh, dearly, dearly has He loved,
And we must love Him too,
And trust in His redeeming Blood,
And try His works to do."
The hymn concluded, Mr. Blackmore asked the people to be seated; and, whilst they were settling down, he moved to one side, and the gas was lowered.
The first pictures shown upon the screen, which stretched across the back of the platform, represented scenes from the early life of Jesus. The audience, with the keenest interest, saw the infant Saviour in His mother's arms, the wise men kneeling in worship before Him; saw Him, a young boy, teaching in the Temple, and, later, working at the carpenter's bench. Then they saw Him healing the sick, preaching on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and blessing little children; and at last, after Judas Iscariot had betrayed Him and Peter had denied Him, they saw Him standing in the judgment-hall before Pontius Pilate.
Mr. Blackmore had so far explained very fully the meaning of each picture, in such simple words as no one could fail to understand; but when the picture of the scene in the judgment-hall was replaced by one showing a distant hill, on the summit of which three crosses stood out plainly against the horizon, he merely said: