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 mand are given the consultations: q
 will not leave thee desolate," "I will
 give thee my peace," My spirit shall
 bear witness with thee," "Ye shall
 see me-" But these words, like the
 music heard in the distance at even
 tide, could soOthe but for the moment
 and with tinge of sadness. They re- |ceived them not, then. To-day the
 the world, to hearts uncalmed, dis
 traught, without courage, and faint.
 A change must come into the heart of
 man, following the change in the ap-
 pearance Of Jesus who spoke them be-
 fore the 14th chapter of John gives it's
 sustaining power. Weeks later when
 the II were as new men, then did memory turn back to these farewell sayings understood and fed. Brethren, Christ promises refresh ment to the soul in which the spirit abides-and that comes when one fol lows Jesus from the cross to the heart
 of God. Then does His glory like a magnet bring us, It's metal, within the
 sphere of it's alchemy, drawing us unto Himself.
 Melrose Abbey of Scotland, hoary in patriotic story, has been defaced and overturned by four different armies.
 But in tower amidst the general ruin,
 one window stands unScarred. It rep
 resents the crown of thOrns, down
 turned to pierce the Saviour'S brow.
 Before that symbol of love suffering eternally for mems sins, hosts have marched and remarched, many weep ing-and no hand was lifted to strike blow.
 The disciple must follow Jesus, his friend, to Calvary and tremble beneath
 its terror and then behold the Father exalting Him at His own right hand, crowning Him as His souls Lord.
 The humblest suppliant before the
 blessed Christ is in the pathway of the Of pain, the darkness of sOrrOw-tOuch. ing his soul with strength for every duty and labor of life. His words are for me and for thee. "If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my
 Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." IA: 23). "And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, that he may be with you forever" GA: 16).
 ALL THEY WHO YIELD THE HEART IN shall be blessed in at least four waves of healing and power:
 l. "I will not leave you desolate. " "Comfortless" is not the right trans. lation, but rather Orphans" "I will not leave you fatherless." These
 men were to suffer the greatest possi-
 ble loss except perhaps one-the in. tegrity of the soul before it's Maker. InClC had h0nnno 1if0 .rl, to these men. What grief could equal theirs from whom was to be Snatched Him who combined father, mother, leader, friend, in Himself-and to die in agony and in scorn! Added to this was soon to be Peters anguish of guilt and shame; Thomas crushed in the iron box of melancholy. Most were benumbed in fear. All were to shiver in a cold, cheerless world. To them, Christ promises, 'I come again; l will not leave you orphans"
 Is 1t the lot of rare spiritual lives t0 suffer loneliness among men? In cer-
 tain sense, yes; in reality, no. Some
 times Jesus is described as man of and brothers who not rising to his height did not understand-and to be
 motherless! Often he enjoyed the pop ularity of crowds, whose huzzas rang
 loud and long. only to be left by them in comparative solitude again, to be followed by little hearty band who said, Lord I will follow thee every where-that is joyous; but soon to hear them quarreling for chief seats at his last meal, to turn sad gaze on the most enthusiastic now denying-that was cruel.
 But this is very far from being all When we go to the very heart, we find that he had solved the problem so many
 are struggling under. He was not des- olate. Listen to Him: "Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet
 l am not alone, because the Father is with me-"
 Oh, friends, that was not with him a dream, a hope, a promise, some other had given which he was grasping as a straw. 1t was to hlm the blessed real. ity, the surest joy. And it is because losing all dear ones, fOrsaken when he most needed help, with no earthly coun. Sel ever at hand which was not temp tatiOn; that he found real abiding cOmpaniOnship which he can bring t6 every SOrrOWful soul; and thus he be- came the cC mfOrter, ,and is able to send another comforter who shall abide with us forever.
 Christ was not a lonely man in the true sense. We cannot make real