future, as the Cross is sure in the past, or the Throne in the
present. Let me ask you this question, the question which Christ has
sent all His servants to ask--Have you loathed your sin? have you
opened your heart to Christ's righteousness? If you have, when men's
hearts are failing them for fear, and they 'call on the rocks and the
hills to cover them from the face of Him that sitteth upon the
Throne,' you will 'have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity
is kept,' and lift up your heads, 'for your redemption draweth nigh.'
'Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness before
Him in the day of judgment.'



THE GUIDE INTO ALL TRUTH

'I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them
now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide
you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but
whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show
you things to come. He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of
Mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath
are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall
show it unto you.'--JOHN xvi. 12-15.

This is our Lord's last expansion, in these discourses, of the great
promise of the Comforter which has appeared so often in them. First,
He was spoken of simply as dwelling in Christ's servants, without any
more special designation of His work than was involved in the name.
Then, His aid was promised, to remind the Apostles of the facts of
Christ's life, especially of His words; and so the inspiration and