, the
wonders of redeeming love! the rapture of that hour when the infinite
Father, looking upon the ransomed, shall behold His image, sin's discord
banished, its blight removed, and the human once more in harmony with the
divine!

With unutterable love, Jesus welcomes His faithful ones to the "joy of
their Lord." The Saviour's joy is in seeing, in the kingdom of glory, the
souls that have been saved by His agony and humiliation. And the redeemed
will be sharers in His joy, as they behold, among the blessed, those who
have been won to Christ through their prayers, their labors, and their
loving sacrifice. As they gather about the great white throne, gladness
unspeakable will fill their hearts, when they behold those whom they have
won for Christ, and see that one has gained others, and these still
others, all brought into the haven of rest, there to lay their crowns at
Jesus' feet, and praise Him through the endless cycles of eternity.

As the ransomed ones are welcomed to the city of God, there rings out upon
the air an exultant cry of adoration. The two Adams are about to meet. The
Son of God is standing with outstretched arms to receive the father of our
race,--the being whom He created, who sinned against his Maker, and for
whose sin the marks of the crucifixion are borne upon the Saviour's form.
As Adam discerns the prints of the cruel nails, he does not fall upon the
bosom of his Lord, but in humiliation casts himself at His feet, crying,
"Worthy, worthy is the Lamb that was slain!" Tenderly the Saviour lifts
him up, and bids him look once more upon the Eden home from which he has
so long been exiled.

After his expulsion from Eden, Adam's life on earth was filled with
sorrow. Every dying leaf, every victim of sacrifice, every blight upon the
fair face of nature, every stain upon man's purity, was a fresh reminder
of his sin. Terrible was the agony of remorse as he beheld iniquity
abounding, and, in answer to his warnings, met the reproaches cast upon
himself as the cause of sin. With patient humility he bore, for nearly a
thousand years, the penalty of transgression. Faithfully did he repent of
his sin, and trust in the merits of the promised Saviour, and he died in
the hope of a resurrection. The Son of God redeemed man's failure and
fall; and now, through the work of the atonement, Adam is re-instated in
his first dominion.

Transported with joy, he beholds the trees that were once his delight,--the
very tr