s connected with this!

Oh, the peace forever flowing
From God's thoughts of His own Son!
Oh, the peace of simply knowing
On the cross that all was done!

Peace with God, the blood in heaven
Speaks of pardon now to me:
Peace with God! the Lord is risen!
Righteousness now counts me free.

Peace with God is Christ in glory;
God is just and God is love;
Jesus died to tell the story,
Foes to bring to God above.

But more than that "He hath made us kings and priests unto God and
His Father." This belongs also to His mighty love. His future of
Glory as the Prince of the Kings of the earth, the King of kings and
Lord of lords, His fathomless love leads Him to share with those for
whom He died, whom He purged and fitted by His own blood. He hath
made us kings and priests. It is all His work. A more correct
translation is "He hath made us a Kingdom." This, however, does not
mean that He has linked us with a Kingdom in which we are to be
subjects and governed by Him. We are not subjects of a Kingdom, but
_are_ a Kingdom, partakers of it in rule with Himself. We shall rule
and reign with Him over the earth. And because He will be "a priest
upon _His_ throne" (Zech. vi:13) we, too, will be priests. What it
all includes, what glories await us, what enjoyment with Him, what
riches and blessings, power and honor, no mind can grasp and no
tongue nor pen can describe.

"To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever, Amen." All glory and
dominion to Him! Thou art worthy! Thou art worthy! This is the
heart's cry, which really knows Him and is devoted to Him. "Thou art
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power." Our crowns we
cast before Thy throne. Amen and Amen.

Reader can you add your "Amen"--your, "be it so" to all this? Do
you sing this Glory song? In a day when He, who is worthy, is but
little praised, do you praise Him thus? Do you live in the daily
enjoyment of His love? Do you give Him the pre-eminence to whom God
has given the pre-eminence in all things? Amen! And oh the happy
thought, which helps us so in these evil days, that soon He, who
loveth us, who washed us, who hath made us a Kingdom and priests,
may call us into His own glorious presence.

The Firstborn.

"THE Firstborn" or "The Firstbegotten" is one of the names of our
blessed Lord. It is applied to Him after His resurrection from the
dead. As the Only Begotten He came into this worl