day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light to the earth, but Jehovah shall be unto it everlasting light, and our God the glory. Thus saith Jehovah, My throne is heaven, and the earth my footstool. Immanuel, God with men!

Ravished with the vision of the glorified race on earth, the great prophet prayed God, saying, Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us. O Jehovah our Father and our Redeemer, thy name is from everlasting. O that thou wouldst rend the heavens and that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy pres

ence.

John, on the isle of Patmos when in Jehovah's hour, saw the coming centuries unfold before him. Degeneracy of the Christian faith had already begun in the churches. John saw its ripened effects in the sorrows of the long darkness of the middle ages, and that which applies to our time. But looking over this dark gulf he saw in his vision the kingdom of heaven on earth, substantially the same as Isaiah had seen. He saw men on earth who feared Jehovah, and worshiped in his nature, because they recognized his righteous acts, which had been manifested on the earth, and before which great Babylon shall fall. He saw men who had come up from great tribulation having their robes washed, made white by the power of the living truth; he saw these men standing before the throne of God, serving him day and night in his temple, and that which sits upon the throne dwelt in them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light them, nor any heat. For the living truth which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them and shall lead them into living fountains of water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

He saw the world whereof we speak, as a new heaven and

a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he their God will dwell with them. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; for the glory of God shall lighten it, and the living truth shall be the light thereof. The river of the water of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and out of the living truth, shall flow through the city, on either side of it the tree of life, yielding all manner of fruit continually. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God, the living truth shall be in it. And they shall see Jehovah's face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. For they that have borne the image of the earthy, shall bear the image of the heavenly; for flesh and blood shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. And death and hell shall be cast into a lake of fire. The Son of God shall descend from heaven, and the saints of Jehovah shall reign forever and forever. Come Lord Jesus, come quickly.

As the life in the protozoans was less than the abundance of life that now is; so our mightiest inventions, our highest standards of morality, our best conceptions of righteous living, all come far short of that which shall be revealed in men, living by the power of the holiness of life alone. The purest hopes of philosophers, the highest conceptions of altruists, the

sublime imaginations of the most gifted poets, the inspired visions of the prophets and the apostles, though filled with all the grandeur language can express, are dim shadows of that which God has in reservation for those who love him. 1Brethren I reckon that this life is not worthy to be compared, with that which shall be revealed in us; as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

The sublime hope is sure and steadfast that some sweet day, the ten times ten millions who inhabit the earth shall be in glorified bodies, in eternal dominion, like the body of Jesus after he had risen from the tomb; and these men by their divine power of life shall redeem the creature from its bondage of the corruption of sin and death. We shall be like Jesus; and so we shall ever be as the Lord; world without end. Amen.

'I Cor. 2:8, 9.

Adam, 6, 13, 33, 171, 200, Cornelius, 125

Job, 52, 58, 64, 134, 206, Noah, 32, 45

Joseph of Arimathea, 147, Palestine, 155, 160, 183