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meet. Our friends to whom we can unbOSOm deep condolences are those of like mind, necessarily very few. The higher ones life, the more are those whom one can aid and
 WHO IN WAY CAN BUILD ONE UP; and yet if the jolly, untutored man en- joys a hundred men like himself, each royal David has but one Jonathan, the Kings son. Now it is plain that Christ craved for human sympathy with a craving SurpaSsing that felt by friend for friend, or mother for her chlldren's love. It was His due. In this He was left unsatisfed. Wet shall we not say it was in part gain? For he learned to know the companionship of God as a tender, strong, satisfying relation. Did He not leave the crowd to go off alone with God? Did He not rejoice at Lazarus tomb, "Thou nearest me al- ways" In Gethsemane did he not find radiant quiet? And on Calvary these were the final words: "It is finished: Father, into thy hands l commend my spirit" Beloved, we seek to find sol ace, strength, reliance, joy-all that deep, loving companionship means-in the friends about. us. That is good. Yet he who rested at Bethany and plo'!uCu lol HID HoOllcI Wltl d uyl ylu& breath-learned refuge, strength, a joy, an all, in his Father. Some day when the heart responds with that lovable man to God whose very name is Love, we shall know Him to be more than wife, parent, child. All things else then are small; to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent is eternal life.
 And with us the heartstrings snap when earthly ones pine away, or leave us or are taken. And that too is right to live in them; so did the Master even more than we. But are the shifting leaves of earth our pillow-is our bark in the uncertain sea,-must the inferior mind advise us, must the weak heart strengthen and inspire us? Man on earth is but breath, a vapor. The wind bloweth over him and he is gone: The dearest ones go the way of all the earth. Is there no no soul whose love will never cease and upon whom we always have our treasure? Let Jesus teach us. Oh the love of God simply beyond the yearnings of the heart-its height, it's depth, its length, its breadth, and he abides forever and fOrever-the same yesterday, to-day and forever more. May Christ raise the dreary soul to God who knew him and drove away all loneliness, "the Father is with me'
 Is all this practicable? Yes. How do know it? Because II men have proved it. Has joy surpassed theirs? prison? Was Stephen alone when they stoned him unto death? Could distress, or persecution, or sickness, or taunt, or temptation, or poverty, or death of friends make them lonely? No, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ? And Paul among slaves writes to the comfortable homes of Philippi, "rejoice in the Lord. 1" And though expecting to come among these dear friends, those in whom the multitude find their comfort, their cheer; he said in effect, shall be very lonely, want to go to Christ, to die is gain.
 OH, THEY WERE NOT DEsOLATE.
 And that truth is for us. Turn to walk in Gods way, behold as thou goest to Emmaus, he joins thee. Seek hls will, do his work, live for him, love him with the little love thou hast; he will soon be nigh thee, yes, about thee and in thee. Here is the divine prom ise, for life, for death, for the crowded hearth, for the parting of the ways. elf 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." I will moi, leave you desolate, fatherless. I come unto you.
 ?. And with Christ's presence comes peace. There are two ways in which a nation finds peace. First 1t may submit to stronger power with out resistance. Or it may by stead fast courage compel others to leave it alone. So with the soul. Some would quiet ambition, saying, "Your sweat is not worth the trouble; let evil be present about them, it is not my busi- ness" They would deaden conscience "God is too great or too kind not to pass by this little sin.'' But such is not the Christian peace, the "my peace' of Christ. His is the peace of conquest, of victory, of mighty per fectness. That is not to be glassy sea over which the eleven push their bark. '"They shall put you out of the syna- goges, yea the hour cometh, that who- soever killeth you, shall think he of fereth service unto God.'' And yet, when being murdered, they were to be at peace. In the North of England the Romans built a great wall 75 miles long, F feet high, 8 feet thick, with forts a mile apart, garrisoned by 1C l <- l,o