in your faces? There are
some of us, I have no doubt, who in a very horrid sense bear in our
bodies the marks of the idol that we worship. Men who have ruined their
health by dissipation and animal sensualism--are there any of them here
this morning? Are there none of us whose faces, whose trembling hands,
whose diseased frames, are the tokens that they belong to the flesh and
the world and the devil? Whose do _you_ bear?

Oh! when one looks at all the faces that pass one upon the street--this
all drawn with avarice and earthly-mindedness; that all bloated with
self-indulgence and loose living--when one sees the mean faces, the
passionate faces, the cruel faces, the vindictive faces, the lustful
faces, the worldly faces, one sees how many of us bear in our bodies the
marks of _another_ lord. They have no rest day nor night who worship the
beast; and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

I pray you, yield yourselves to your true Lord, so on earth you may bear
the beginnings of the likeness that stamps you His, and hereafter, as
one of His happy slaves, shall do priestly service at His throne and see
His face, and His name shall be in your foreheads.

PHILIPPIANS

LOVING GREETINGS

'Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to
all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at
Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2. Grace
to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ. 3. I thank my God upon all my
remembrance of you, 4. Always in every
supplication of mine on behalf of you all making
my supplication with joy, 5. For your fellowship
in furtherance of the gospel from the first day
until now; 6. Being confident of this very thing
that He which began a good work in you will
perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ: 7. Even
as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf
of you all, because I have you in my heart,
inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence
and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are
partakers with me of grace. 8. For God is my
witness, how I long after you all in the tender
mercies of Christ Jesus.'--PHIL. i. 1-8 (R.V.).

The bond between Paul and the church at Philippi was peculiarly close.
It had been founded by himself, as is narrated at unusual length in the
book of Ac