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ing in the flesh, and suffering for you. He has been preached unto the Gentiles as He that liveth and was dead, and behold He is alive for evermore. He has been believed on in the world. Men have believed that God and not man only, but God made man and for man died upon the cross of Calvary. Will any have doubts of God's merciful purpose to our world? When He created Adam, He created him with the purpose of making him and all his posterity like unto Himself; and that purpose was before the world had a being, for Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Believe it, there is no limit to the saving power of God; and know this, that many a vile creature, after a life of impiety, has been plucked as a brand from the burning, being sanctified in their last moments. "The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his." He hath saved all His people according to His own purpose and grace, which was given them in Christ Jesus before the world began, which will be made manifest by the second coming of the same Lord of glory, without sin unto salvation. Lift up your hearts, lift up your voices, all ye who are the seed of the first Adam. For you the last Adam appeared and died. You may with the apostle Paul exclaim, "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth; who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, who is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor

angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Rom. viii. 33-39.)

"God was made manifest in the flesh, and justified in the Spirit;" God was rich, and He became poor; God was almighty, and He became weak; God was holy, and He took up His abode with wickedness; God could have destroyed sinners, but He endured as powerless their contradiction against Himself, striving unto blood against sin; God, self-existent, and the fountain of all life, suffered death. In doing all this He was justified in the Spirit. He testified before angels and men that His will was not a self-will; but He also testified that His will was a sovereign will. He testified that His love was not a self-love; for He loved others, if that were possible, more than He loved Himself: to save others from suffering, the Eternal Son of God suffered. God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son for the life of that world. He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all. Herein is love, not that we loved Him, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Greater love hath no man, than that a man lay down his life for his friends: but God commendeth His love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He testified that His delight, and joy, and happiness were not selfish. He rejoiced in the habitable parts of the earth, and His delights were with the sons of men: when He prepared the heavens, when He set a compass upon the face of the depth, when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep, when He gave to the sea His decree, and

when He appointed the foundations of the earth.

When the prodigal child is yet a great way off, his Father seeth him, and hath compassion, and runs, and falls upon his neck, and kisses him; and says to His servants the angels, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. Likewise I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. He testified that His commandment to His creatures was not grievous, for in their nature, and weak, and hungry, and in the wilderness, He resisted the devil. He testified that His government of His intelligent offspring was not a government of force or power, mere authority; the only constraint by which He constrains being the constraining power of His love. He testified, "As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye, from your your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel." "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not." He testified the present ingratitude of nine-tenths of those for whom He suffered, and whom He loved, and for whom He gave Himself. "As he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men

that were lepers, which stood afar off: and they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus, answering, said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole." He testified that He would be glorified on this earth, even as He voluntarily subjected Himself to humiliation and shame upon it; and that then there would be no more curse, that then paradise-all things would be restored. And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, coming in answer to His people's prayers—and His feet upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east-that is, all the prayers, and cries, and groanings of believing saints, from the beginning of the world down to the present day. In that day the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof, toward the east and toward the west, a very great valley, and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and toward the south. In that day shall living waters go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea. They shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down with Abraham; that is, by faith shall obtain possession of the kingdom of God which shall then fill the whole

earth. For the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in; behold He shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house, which is an house of prayer for all nations; I will fill it with my glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts; and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts. Then the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, peace of mind, and glory in the highest. Then when they say, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord, and bind the sacrifice with cords unto the horns of the altar, they shall see the heavens opened, and the Son of man sitting on the right hand of God; that is, like Thomas, they shall believe that He who suffered upon the cross of Calvary was not a man, but verily the Son of God in human nature. They shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory; that is, God filling a human nature with the full knowledge of His eternal purpose and counsel; who, although but a man, and a sinful man, in all respects like unto his brethren, is nevertheless caught up by God unto Himself and to His throne. When the Son of God was manifest in flesh, He who was rich became poor. But when the Son of man cometh in a cloud, he who was poor is,