not yet appear what we shall be'; but that wherever we go, it will
be but passing from one room of the great home into another more
glorious still. 'I must be about my Father's business'; let us make
that the motto for earth, and He will say to us in His own good time
'Come home from the field, and sit down beside Me in My house,' and
so we 'shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.'




JOHN THE PREACHER OF REPENTANCE


'Now, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius
Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and
Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip
tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis,
and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2. Annas and
Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came
unto John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
3. And he came into all the country about Jordan,
preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission
of sins; 4. As it is written in the book of the words
of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying
in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make
His paths straight. 6. Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and
the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways
shall be made smooth; 6. And all flesh shall see the
salvation of God. 7. Then said he to the multitude that