n these things, while they beheld,
He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And, while
they looked stedfastly toward Heaven as He went up, behold, two men
stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why
stand ye gazing up into Heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from
you into Heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go
into Heaven. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the Mount called
Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath-day's journey."

* * * * *

ZECHARIAH XIV. 4.--"And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount
of Olives, which _is_ before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of
Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the
west, _and there shall be_ a very great valley; and half of the mountain
shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south."

* * *

"And it shall be in that day, _that_ living waters shall go out from
Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward
the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. And the Lord shall
be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his
name one."

* * *

"And it shall come to pass, _that_ every one that is left of all the
nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year
to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the feast of
Tabernacles."

CONTENTS.

I. OPENING THOUGHTS 1

II. THE HOME SCENE 11

III. LESSONS 24

IV. THE MESSENGER 34

V. THE MESSAGE 42

VI. THE SLEEPER 53

VII. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS 67

VIII. THE MOURNER'S COMFORT 77

IX. THE MOURNER'S CREED 84

X. THE MASTER 92

XI. SECOND CAUSES 100

XII. THE WEEPING SAVIOUR 108

XIII. THE GRAVE-STONE 125

XIV. UNBELIEF 134

XV. THE DIVINE PLEADER 141

XVI. THE OMNIPOTENT SUMMONS 150

XVII. THE BOX OF OINTMENT 161

XVIII. PALM BRANCHES 178

XIX. THE FIG-TREE