-all in Christ--all for Christ--Onward to Glory._ Soon He
will call us into His glorious presence.

"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us"
(Rom. viii:18).

"For our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Cor. v:17).

Oh what will be the day when won at last
The last long weary battle, we shall come
To those eternal gates the King hath passed,
Returning from our exile to our Home;
When earth's last dust is washed from off our feet;
The last sweat from our brows is wiped away;
The hopes that made our pilgrim journey sweet
All met around us, realized that day!

Oh what will be the day, when we shall stand
Irradiate with God's eternal light;
First tread as sinless saints the sinless land,
No shade nor stain upon our garments white;
No fear, no shame upon our faces then,
No mark of sin--oh joy beyond all thought!
A son of God, a free-born citizen
Of that bright city where the curse is not!

The Exalted One.

Hebrews i.

SOME thirty-five years ago, when the so-called "Higher Criticism"
had begun its destructive work, a believer living in England,
predicted that within thirty years the storm would gather over one
sacred head. How this has come true! Satan's work of undermining the
authority of the Bible, a pernicious work still going on, is but the
preliminary to an attack of the Person of Christ. To-day as never
before the glorious Person of our Lord is being belittled in the
camp of Christendom. This is done not only in the out and out
denials of His Deity but also in more subtle ways. It is for us who
"deny not His Name" (Revel. iii:8), whose desire is to exalt Him,
ever to remind ourselves of the Blessed One and His Glory. At this
time we desire to look briefly at the teachings of the first chapter
in Hebrews.

This chapter is divided into two parts. In the first part we find
another great description of our adorable Lord, and in the second a
description of His exaltation. The beginning of the chapter gives us
that solid assurance that God has spoken and that the Old Testament
is His Word. "God having spoken in many parts and in many ways
formerly to the fathers in the prophets, at the end of these days
has spoken to us in (the person of the) Son." The Old Testament
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