T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S this he carried with him to have it re touched and perfected by the transfigur ing Christ. Foretastes of Glory Now. A pastor preached a sermon on heaven. One of the men of his con gregation said next day, “Doctor, you told us a great many grand and beauti ful things yesterday, but you did not tell us where heaven was.” - “Oh,” said the pastor, “I am glad of the oppor tunity now. Up on that hill is a woman sick with a fever in one bed, and two little children sick in the other bed, and she hasn’t a bit of coal or wood, flour or bread. Now, if you will go down and buy fifty dollars’ worth of things and go up there with them and say, “Sister, I have brought you these pro visions in the name of our Lord, and Saviour, then ask for a Bible and read and pray—if you don’t see heaven be fore you get through, I ’ll pay the bill.” The next morning the member said, “Pastor, I saw heaven and spent fifteen minutes there as certainly as you are listening.” No Transforming Power Outside Christ. It is a fact that no other religion has the power to transform that the living Christ has. It is said that in India the lowest caste are superior, in culture and intelligence, to the high caste, when they become Christians. That is—the children of Christian parents for three generations are more excellent in every way than the high caste Hindoos trained for centuries. Benares is the so-called holy city for Hinduism, where thousands of priests filch from the pilgrims in the 1500 temples; and offer them in return only vain indulgences. Here is the most sacred (? ) well in all India, filled from the Ganges and cleaned only once a year. In it the Hindu people bathe for purification. The filth is unspeakable. There is no transformation, for the bet ter, here for mankind. Neither is there
1042 be developed. His glory will dispel all doubts. How much we need to go apart —to have the mountain vision and ex perience; there is a place of revelation and transformation. Now we behold as in a: glass, but we shall yet see face to face. PRACTICAL POINTS (1) “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” (2) Many a mount would have a mes sage for us if we prayed for it. (3) The bodies of believers are to be transformed into the likeness of His glorified body. (4) The doctrine of the soul-sleepers gets a death blow at the transfig uration scene. (5) “Christ crucified” is not only the theme of the centuries, but of etern ity. (6) Above the turmoil of earth’s voice rings the clarion voice of God “This is my beloved Son; hear Him.” (7) The testimony of Moses and Elijah outweighs all the speculations of the skeptics. (8) “Now we see through a glass darkly; but then, face to face.” Changed into His Likeness. In the gallery of the Vatican, at Rome, there hangs a work of art which stands foremost among others there and at the head of all the oil paintings in the world. It LESSON is the “transfigura- ILLUSTRATIONS tion” by Raphael W. H. Pike and as the artist bent his might upon it the splendid vision was produced, but as the last lines were almost done God called the painter, and they hung his picture above his bier, its colors still wet upon the canvass. Raphael had not taken the canvass painting with him, but who shall say that on the canvass of his life there was not the counterpart of that which hung above his bier, and
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