y sternly to his own heart every hour of
temptation, No! never! and on the spot a sweet waft of Beulah's finest
spices will fall upon his face. "The ineffable joy of renouncing joy"
will every day make the lonely wilderness of this world a constant Beulah
to such a man. For, to live at all times, in all places, and in all
things for other men, and never and in nothing for yourself--that is the
deepest secret of Beulah. To say it, if need be, three times to-night on
your face and in a sweat of blood, "Not my will, but Thine be done!"--that
will to-night turn the garden of Gethsemane itself into the very garden
of Glory. Do you doubt it? Are you not yet able to believe it? Then
hear about it from One who has Himself come through it. Hear His word
upon the whole matter who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. "Come
unto Me," says the King of Beulah, "all ye that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me,
for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." So after He had washed
their feet, and had taken His garments and was set down again, He said
unto them, "Know ye what I have done to you? For I have given you an
example, that ye should do as I have done to you. If ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye do them. If ye love Me, keep My commandments.
And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that
He may abide with you for ever. If a man love Me, he will keep My words;
and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him and will make Our
abode with him. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as
the world giveth, give I unto you. These things have I spoken unto you
that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Hitherto ye have asked nothing in My name; ask, and ye shall receive,
that your joy may be full. Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast
given Me, be with Me where I am." And thus I saw in my dream that their
way lay right through the land of Beulah, in which land they solaced
themselves for a season.

2. "They solaced themselves." Now, solace is just the Latin _solatium_,
which, again, is just a soothing, an assuaging, a compensation, an
indemnification. Well, that land into which the pilgrims had now come
was very soothing to their ruffled spirits and to their weary hearts. It
assuaged their many and sore grie