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self-sacrifice which is the highest manifestation of the Divine, as it is His transcendant characteristic. Those lines were carved by the suffering born of sympathy with sorrow and with sin ners. The hue of vigorous manhood has been dissipated by the constant outpouring of vital force in the healing and help ing of mankind. This is the glory of God; to spend and to be spent for us. And yet, spite of its furrows and its pallor, what a face to contemplate would be that of Jesus of Nazareth. What tenderness, what power, what purity, what steadfast ness, what nobility of soul, would those sacred, yet human lineaments display. Who could look at that countenance and remain Unilluminated, unsanctified by the vision? What, then, will it be to see the glorified face of our risen Lord? Can we wonder that, when the full flame of the Divine effulgence shall burst upon us,, it shall transform us into its own ethereal beauty, and that we shall be like Him because we shall “see Him as He is”,? NOTHING is more dreadful, perhaps, than to feel abso lutely alone. Not with the mere temporary solitariness of sur roundings, but with a loneliness which penetrates into the very soul. Sometimes it is due to the feeling that we are forsaken of men: all our loved ones have been snatched from u s; or they have deserted us in anger or in treachery. Sometimes itijs a loneliness born of mental or of spiritual conflict, into which we dare not ask our friends to enter; of which, perhaps, we dare not even give them a hint. Alone! forsaken! without a coun sellor, companion, or friend! So we sometimes feel. But let us not forget that for the Christian such a position is purely imag inative. The child of God can always say: “Alone, yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.” That presence is never withdrawn; that aid is never lacking; that companionship never fails. We may not see His presence, we may not be conscious of His nearness; for He is a God Who sometimes hideth Him self—but He is ever there, and His help is assured to us in every time of need. Even in that last hour: J une 18. “Alone . . .'yet -ïÿ’.J not alone."—Ino. 16:32. even then we shall not be left to take the dread journey alone: we need not fear; the Vanquisher of death will be with us still. ■ I J une 19. “Take heed what ye hear.”—Mark 4:24. MANY voices are appealing to the ears of men. Multi tudes of preachers and teachers cry to us in the highways and byways of earth. But they are not all Divine, nor are their messages all of heaven. “There are many false prophets gone forth into the world.” We must learn to discriminate among the voices—to distinguish the true from the false—or we shall be led astray. We must “try the spirits, whether they be of God.” For the responsibility of discernment is ours. But how to dis criminate; by what to try them? Not by their earnestness, nor their eloquence, nor their plausibility; least of all by their popu larity among the sons of met). We have a Book—the inspired revelation of the Divine will. “To the law and to the testi mony,” then; “if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Let us ever remember that "new gospels” are no gospels at all; the only real Gospel is as old as Eden’s Fall. Men seek to dazzle us with the brilliance of their “modern thought” (much of which is not modern at all, but simply old heresies re-hashed), but we must never forget that “When by the bed the loved ones weep, And death dews o’er the forehead creep, And vain is help or hope from men”—
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