who know that Jesus Christ, sitting in undisturbed rest at the right
hand of God, thence works with and for His servants. His repose is full
of active energy; His active energy is full of repose. And that place of
calm abode is 'glorious' or, more emphatically and literally, 'glory. He
shall dwell in the blaze of the uncreated glory of God,--a prediction
which is only fulfilled in its true meaning by Christ's ascension and
session at the right hand of God, in the glory which He had with the
Father before the world was, and into which He has borne that lowly
manhood which He drew from the cut-down stem of Jesse.




THE WELL-SPRING OF SALVATION

'Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
ISAIAH xii. 3.


There are two events separated from each other by more than fifteen
hundred years which have a bearing upon this prophecy: the one supplied
the occasion for its utterance, the other claimed to be its
interpretation and its fulfilment. The first of these is that scene
familiar to us all, where the Israelites in the wilderness murmured for
want of water, and the law-giver, being at his wits' end what to do with
his troublesome charges, took his anxieties to God, and got for an
answer the command to take with him the elders of Israel and his
miracle-working rod, and to go to the rock, 'and the Lord shall stand
upon the rock before thee and them, and the water shall flow forth.' It
was not the rock, nor the rod, nor Moses and the elders, but the