ment shall increase in wonder the revelation of the Father. Seeing Him face to face, all forms of beauty, all treasures of happiness and joy, all visions of perfect peace; the sea of glass, the rainbow round the throne, the song of the redeemed, the new heaven and the new earth, the marvellous life of lives in the city that hath no need of the sun, the company of the blest, the intercourse of all the redeemed, the pealing hallelujahs going up for ever into the eternity of God, and the deep life of Him that sitteth on the throne; what can we have more than this to gaze on, Jesus for ever, and to be filled for ever with the fulness of God?

O blessed day, when the sign of His coming shall be seen in heaven, and saints going forth to meet Him, with the seal of election on their brows and in their hearts, shall say, 'This is the end of all our toil, and waiting, and weary wars; this is our rest from a darkened world, 'and the darts of Satan, and the long warfare, 'and the terrible struggle, and the ending of 'Adam, and the bonds of sin; this is the vision 'of our King's eternal beauty; this is our home for ever in the glory of the once far-off land.' O sweet and blessed country, The Home of God's elect! O sweet and blessed country That eager hearts expect! Jesu, in mercy bring us

To that dear land of rest,
Who art with God the Father,
And Spirit, ever blest.

Amen.

Cosin, x.

Leighton, 119.

180.

Cyprian, xiv., 48, 85, 104, Little, 192.

Lightfoot, 142.