for which I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." There is room to know more, love more, admire, enjoy more, and to be more transformed by these delightful manifestations into the same image, from glory to glory. The mind of a godly man is alive to every repeated and every fresh discovery which the Redeemer makes of himself, whether in his word and ordinances, or in his providence. He "would see Jesus." He would see him everywhere, and enjoy him in everything. Whatever the scene, the events, the place, the duties which bring his Saviour near, attract his own heart toward Christ and heaven. That is the Mount of Transfiguration to him, and he says of it, "Lord it is good to be here!" The most adoring views he would have still more adoring. His prayer is, "I beseech thee, show me thy glory!" He would be satisfied to the full; he would drink of those "rivers of pleasure," that "river of life, flowing clear as crystal from the throne of God and the Lamb." If you walk in darkness, there is fault somewhere; and must it not be in you? It cannot be in God; for "God is love;" he "taketh pleasure in them that fear him and in them that hope in his mercy.' It is not in the gospel; for the gospel is "glad tidings of great joy." It is not in the Saviour; for his glory is never concealed, but always luminous, always visible if men will but open their eyes to behold it. "He that followeth after me," says this

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great source of light and comfort, "shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." He passed through scenes of darkness, that he might "lift the light of his countenance upon them, and give them peace." Let the benighted Christian say, "Behold I am vile; what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth." He is looking to other sources of light and joy, when he should be looking only to Christ. It is not the world that can give you peace, but Christ. It is not human counsellors, but Christ the Wonderful Counsellor. It is not frames and feelings, but Christ. To a sinner everything is dark but Christ. Happy frames and feelings are not Christ. They change, but he never changes. There is no delusion when faith fixes

its eye not upon itself but upon him. "Who shall

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separate us from the love of Christ!" simple truths sink down into your hearts, and your nights will be tranquil, and your days cheered and joyful. You will not indeed throw off from your heart the load of conscious wickedness, but you will find the relief of pardon and grace; you will be established in the peace, and hope, and joy of the gospel; your apprehensions will be dissipated, and you will possess those views of the Saviour's glory which fill you with light and joy.

Would you be fitted for death and ripe for heav en; seek to know more of Christ. Special manifestations of his glory are often vouchsafed to the

people of God for the purpose of furnishing them responsible and self-denying duty and toil. They are often imparted in order to prepare him for scenes of conflict and days of temptation and trial. But they always exert a happy influence in fitting them for death and heaven. No small part of the blessedness of that joyous world consists in "seeing him as he is;" though even there, there are heights and depths of his glory which the purest of disembodied spirits never penetrate. There the soul is happy because it loses itself in his infinity, and prospects are ever being opened which are the source of ever increasing joy. Preparatory to this glory hereafter revealed, there is no more delightful or effective means than those less refulgent manifestations begun on earth. Nothing so certainly withdraws the heart from things seen and temporal and fixes it on the things that are unseen and eternal. They are like the Pisgah views which the Prophet enjoyed of the Promised Land, where the eye of faith rests on the "delectable mountains," and runs over the fields beyond the flood. They are like some unlooked-for light which breaks on the path of the wearied and benighted traveller as he comes near to his journey's end, and as it glimmers from the window of his own beloved home. They are no unfriendly indications of our departure from the present world, when the veil is thus drawn aside, and like the martyred

disciple we are allowed to "see heaven opened and Jesus standing on the right hand of God." Christ is "all and in all," to the dying, as well as the living believer. John the aged might well consent to be gathered to his people after that vision of the Son of Man in the isle of Patmos. It was a view

that travelled with him to his grave. Ever after that heavenly voice fell upon his ear, "Fear not; I am he that liveth and was dead." And when that same voice spoke the words, "Surely I come quickly;" well did this favored disciple reply, "Even so; come Lord Jesus!"

But it may be that the reader is not a Christian. Yet is he travelling to the same eternity and through no such illumined path. It is a dark path through the wilderness which he has chosen, and a dark valley through which he enters upon his gloomy inheritance. No fellow spirit can accompany, no created arm support him in the dread conflict. The Comforter is afar off, and he goes alone to the house appointed for all the living."

What shall we say to him? Shall we cheer him by vivid delineations of earthly joy? His mind cannot be thus satisfied, even though thus transiently deceived. It may be that even now it would fain hunger and thirst after righteousness. It were no fitting counsel to magnify in his esteem the wealth, and honors, and pleasures of time. We come on a more kind errand, and have a sweeter

message. We would tell him of the crucified and living One who came to guide his erring feet into the way of peace, to make him happy by making him holy, to show him his glory and induce him to become partaker of his joy. The pleasure of his return to God would outweigh all the pain of forsaking and mortifying his sin. One cheering view of Christ would far transcend all the glories of earth and time. Come, "taste and see that the Lord is good." Gather fruit, now before the harvest is past and the summer of life is ended, from this Tree of Life. Drink of these rivers of salvation, that you go not any more to these broken cisterns which hold no water.

O what overpowering splendor shines in the face of Jesus Christ! Behold it as the "glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." "Look unto him and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth, for he is God and there is none else!"