we read in 1 John iv. 17: "Herein is our love made
perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as
He is, so are we in this world."

If we believe, there is for us no condemnation, no judgment. That is
behind us, and passed; and we shall have boldness in the day of
judgment.

I remember reading of a man who was on trial for his life. He had
friends with influence; and they procured a pardon for him from the
king on condition that he was to go through the trial, and be
condemned. He went into court with the pardon in his pocket. The
feeling ran very high against him, and the judge said that the court
was shocked that he was so much unconcerned. But, when the sentence
was pronounced, he pulled out the pardon, presented it, and walked
out a free man. He has been pardoned; and so have we. Then let death
come, we have nought to fear. All the grave-diggers in the world
cannot dig a grave large enough and deep enough to hold eternal life;
all the coffin makers in the world cannot make a coffin large enough
and tight enough to hold eternal life. Death has had his hand on
Christ once, but never again.

Jesus said: "I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth
in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth
and believeth in Me shall never die" (John xi. 25, 26). And in the
Apocalypse we read that the risen Saviour said to John, "I am He that
liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore" (Rev i.
18). Death cannot touch Him again.

We get life by believing. In fact we get more than Adam lost; for the
redeemed child of God is heir to a richer and more glorious
inheritance than Adam in Paradise could ever have conceived; yea, and
that inheritance endures forever--it is inalienable.

I would much rather have my life hid with Christ in God than have
lived in Paradise; for Adam might have sinned and fallen after being
there ten thousand years. But the believer is safer, if these things
become real to him. Let us make them a fact, and not a fiction. God
has said it; and that is enough. Let us trust Him even where we
cannot trace Him. Let the same confidence animate us that was in
little Maggie as related in the following simple but touching
incident which I read in the _Bible Treasury_:--

"I had been absent from home for some days, and was wondering, as I
again draw near the homestead, if my little Maggie, just able to sit
alone, would remember me. To test her me