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any in the Hindu teachings in this coun try. Transformation from Within, not from Without. A professor was showing to his friends various experiments with the Roentgen or X-rays. Many beautifully dressed ladies were present, wearing, to all appearance, most rare and costly jewelry. Said the professor, “It is really wonderful the effect these rays have upon diamonds.” So, lowering the light in the room, he turned the X-rays on the sparkling gems which the ladies wore. Immediately the real dia monds flashed in all their full brilliancy, but, alas! the beautiful paste imitation diamonds had lost all their lustre. The X-rays discovered which were real and which were imitation, much to the dis may of some of the ladies. When God turns His divine X-rays of glory upon you, will you respond like the real? The Transformed Life Labors. A gentleman visiting one of the hos pitals, for lepers, in India, and wishing to test the nurse on duty, said, “You must have a great deal of enthusiasm for humanity to labor here among these awful cases of disease.” “Enthusiasm for humanity indeed,” replied the nurse, “that would not keep me here a week; but I do possess some of the compas sion and enthusiasm of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is the reason why I am content to live and labor amid such surroundings.” v. 28. He took Peter, John and James into a mountain. The object of this occasion was to fill their souls with a vision which should support their faith amid the COMMENTS FROM horrors of which MANY SOURCES they had just K. L. Brooks been told and which they after ward witnessed.—Camb. Bible. The scene lived in the memory of Peter like
a smouldering fire, for he referred to what he then saw years after and spoke of it as a picture of the coming glory of Christ in His kingly majesty. (2 Pet. 1: 16-18),—Marsh. These three were partners before in secular busi ness and are now sole witnesses of the transfiguration and the agony in the garden.— J. F. & B. v. 29. As He prayed. The trans figuration took place as He prayed and there are only two subjects recorded concerning which He prayed—the suf ferings (Mt. 26:39, 42, 44) and ithe glory (Jno. 17:1, 5, 24).—Bullinger. Transfiguring manifestations are not quite strangers here. Oftimes out of groanings which cannot be uttered God’s children are suddenly transported to a kind of heaven upon earth. Their prayers fetch down such strange light and gladness as make their faces to shine.—Brown. His countenance al tered. The Shekinah of His heart was for the most part hidden but here it burst through the frail veil of flesh. (Jno. 1 :14 ).—Devo. Com. Here is the test of our Christianity. Does my re ligion alter me? If it does not, what right have I to believe it is genuine at all?—Maclaren. If we live with Him and by Him, we shall become like Him. — Sel. His raiment white and glisten ing. Literally “lightning forth” as though from some inward radiance. Matthew compares the whiteness of His robes to the light (1 7 :2 ), Mark to snow (9 :3 ).—Farrar. v. 30. There talked with Him two men. The transfiguring scene contains in miniature all the elements of the fu ture kingdom in manifestation. First, the Lord, not in humiliation but in glory; second, Moses glorified, repre sentative of the’ redeemed who have passed through death into the kingdom; third, Elijah glorified, representative of the redeemed who have entered the kingdom by translation (1 Cor, 15:50-
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