persuaded that he was able to keep that which they committed unto Him
against that day." They did this in the midst of fiery trials. They were
unknown. The world, hated and despised them as she did their divine Master.
But they persevered unto the end; and now they "shine forth as the sun in
the kingdom of their Father." We shall not there, as we do here, eat the
bread of care and drink the waters of bitterness. Here thunders spend their
echoes and lightnings gleam in fierce wrath around our homes. There such
sounds and storms never come.

"No sickness there,
No weary wasting of the frame away;
No fearful shrinking from the midnight air;
No dread of summer's bright and fervid ray.

"No hidden grief,
No wild and cheerless vision of despair;
No vain petition for a swift relief,
No tearful eye, no broken hearts are there

"Care has no home
Within that realm of ceaseless praise and song;
Its tossing billows break and melt in foam,
Far from the mansions of the spirit-throng.

"The storm's black wing
Is never spread athwart celestial skies;
Its wailings blend not with the voice of spring,
As some too tender floweret fades and dies."

Christ is the great center of heaven's glory and attraction. "Whom have I