One more precious fact,-"We know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall sec Him as He is." (i Jno. 3:2.)What a destiny! to be like Him, – in the full image of the heavenly Man in glory-holy, pure, incorruptible!

We are now accepted in the Beloved,-the whole value of His person and work reckoned to us; reckoned dead with Him, and risen in Him, one with Him. But actually and everlastingly to be like Him! Do not our souls long for this ? and can we not say, "As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness "? But, oh, most wondrous fact, is not this the language of Christ Himself ? So really we are one with Him that His own resurrection was but the first-fruits. And it will be when His body, the Church, raised from the dust, or changed in a moment, and the millions of the redeemed meet Him in His own likeness, then shall He see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied; sweetly shall we share His joy.

" He and I, in that bright glory one deep joy shall share :
Mine, to be forever with Him; His, that I am there."

From eternity has He looked forward to that moment, now so near, when the bride shall be presented to Himself; and when it comes, do we not hear Him up there in the heavens saying, '' Rise up, My love, My fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, . . Arise, My love, My fair one, and come away" ? And again:"Thou art all fair, My love; there is no spot in thee." (Song 2:10-13.) The Holy Ghost must use the sweetest poetry to express the heart of Christ.