g, speak every man truth with his
neighbour. Let him that stole steal no more, let no corrupt
conversation proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the
use of edifying. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and
clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And
be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another."

II. We will consider Christ as the Judge. The time will come when He
will separate the bad from the good, when He will go over His fold, and
pick out all those diseased sheep which are good for nothing, and which
taint and infect the others, and will cast them outside.

That is to say, the time will come, when Christ will no more call
sinners to Him, and bring them to His Church, but will examine those
who are in His Church, and unless they have mended their ways, unless
they have become better for being there, He will throw them out, and
have nothing further to do with them.

When Joshua was leading the people of God into the Promised Land, God
said to Joshua, "Up! Sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves
against to-morrow."

In what did this sanctification consist? "Joshua rose early in the
morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was
taken: and he brought the family of Judah; and took the family of the
Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and
Zabdi was taken: and he brought his household man by man; and Achan,
the son of Carmi was taken." Then Joshua learned how this man had
sinned and incurred the anger of God, and he and all Israel carried him
and his family outside the camp unto the valley of Achor, "and all
Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they
had stoned them with stones." That was the sanctification of
Israel,--the putting away the black sheep out of the flock.

When Jesus sat with His Twelve in the supper chamber, at the Last
Supper, Judas rose and went out, and when he was gone forth, Jesus
said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him."
A little while before, while Judas was in the room, we are told, "Jesus
was troubled in spirit." But the moment the evil one among the
Apostles was cast forth, the glorification of the Son of Man began.

So it is now, and so will it be hereafter.

Now, as long as there is evil in the Church, as long as there are
sinners who will not amend, as long as there are tares growing up with
the