We conclude our readings for this year with the writings of the beloved apostle John-his Gospel and the book of Revelation. While so different in their contents, there is a beautiful harmony, we need not say, which makes them fitting companion pieces.

In the Gospel we see our blessed Lord, the Son of God, made manifest in flesh, who reveals the Father's love in the face of all opposition, and ministers to the feeblest faith of the unworthy that lay hold upon it.

Revelation is the book of judgment, where this same Son of God is seen with eyes as a flame of fire, whose sword must smite those who refuse His grace. Thus mercy and judgment, as we have been so constantly seeing throughout the Psalms, the Prophets, and Epistles, are blended together. Thank God, for the believer, the judgment has been borne by Another, and the mercy flows forth unhindered, though judgment of our ways continues, lest we should exalt ourselves and forget that we are debtors to mercy alone.

The divisions and contents of John's Gospel have been so recently gone into at some length, that it will scarcely be needed to go over them again. Briefly, they are three:

1. (Chaps. 1:-2:22.) The eternal life seen in the person of Christ Himself.

2. (Chaps. 2:23-17:) Eternal life communicated from Christ to His people, who believe in Him.

3. (Chaps. 18:-21:) Eternal life secured through the death and resurrection of our blessed Lord.

Revelation has two main divisions:

1:The judgment of the Son of God upon His Church, the vessel of testimony left upon this earth (Chaps. 1:-3:).

Div. 2. (Chaps. 4:-22:) The judgments of the Son of God poured out upon a guilty world which has refused His grace, either in open opposition or empty profession.

After the judgments come the blessings, of the earth during the Millennium, and of that eternal state where sin will not only be repressed but eternally banished from God's fair creation to its prison, and where the new heavens and new earth will be the abode of a holy as well as a redeemed people.