s He that He needs but to be recognised for what He is in
order to be glorified. So great and stupendous are His operations in
redeeming love that they need but to be beheld to be the object of
wonder. 'His name shall be called Wonderful,' and wonderfully the energy
of His redeeming and sanctifying grace shall then have wrought itself
out to its legitimate end. There you get the crowning marvel of marvels,
and the highest of miracles. He did wonderful works upon earth which we
rightly call miraculous,--things to be wondered at--but the highest of
all His wonders is the wonder that takes such material as you and me,
and by such a process, and on such conditions, simply because we trust
Him, evolves such marvellous forms of beauty and perfectness from us.
'He is to be wondered at in all them that believe.'

Such results from such material! Chemists tell us that the black bit of
coal in your grate and the diamond on your finger are varying forms of
the one substance. What about a power that shall take all the black
coals in the world and transmute them into flashing diamonds, prismatic
with the reflected light that comes from His face, and made gems on His
strong right hand? The universe will wonder at such results from such
material.

And it will wonder, too, at the process by which they were accomplished,
wondering at the depth of His pity revealed all the more pathetically
now from the great white throne which casts such a light on the Cross of
Calvary; wondering at the long, weary path which He who is now declared
to be the Judge humbled Himself to travel in the quest of these poor
sinful souls whom He has redeemed and glorified. The miracle of miracles
is redeeming love; and the high-water mark of Christ's wonders is
touched in this fact, that out of men He makes saints; and out of saints
He makes perfect likenesses of Himself.

III. And now a word about what is _not_ expressed, but is necessarily
implied in this verse, viz., the spectators of this glory.

The Apostle does not tell us what eyes they are before which Christ is
thus to be glorified. He does not summon the spectators to look upon
this wonderful exhibition of divine judgment and divine glory; but we
may dwell for a moment on the thought that to whomsoever in the whole
universe Christ at that great day shall be manifested, to them, whoever
they be, will His glory, in His glorified saints, be a revelation beyond
what they have known before. 'Every eye sh