now the shrivelled seed, but there is a flower to come of thee which shall be lovely beyond all thought. Though sown in weakness, this body shall be raised in power; though sown in corruption, it shall be raised in incorruption. Weakness, weariness, pain, and death will be banished for ever; infirmity and deformity will be all unknown. The Lord will raise up our bodies to be like unto his glorious body. Oh, what a prospect lies before us! Let us remember that this blessed resurrection will come to us because he rose, for there must be a resurrection to the members because the Head has risen. Oh, the charm of being a risen man perfect in body, soul, and spirit! All that charm will be due to Christ, and therefore he will be admired in us. Then let us think of the absolute perfection of the church as to numbers: all who have believed in him will be with him in glory. The text saith, he will be "admired in all them that believe." Now, if some of those who believe perished he would not be admired in them, but they will all be there, the little ones as well as the great ones. You will be there, you poor feeble folk who when you say "Lord, I believe," are obliged to add "help thou mine unbelief." He shall be admired in all believers without a single exception, and peradventure there shall be more wonder at the going to heaven of the weak believers than at the stronger ones. Mr. Greatheart, when he comes there will owe his victories to his Master and lay his laurels at his feet; but fainting Feeblemind, and limping Ready-to-halt with his crutches, and trembling Little-faith, when they enter into rest will make heaven ring with notes of even greater admiration that such poor creeping worms of the earth should win the day by mighty grace. Suppose that one of them should be missing at last! Stop the harps! Silence the songs! No beginning to be merry while one child is shut out! I am quite certain if as a family we were going to sing our evening hymn of joy and thankfulness, if mother said, "Where is the little mite? Where is the last one of the family?" There would be a pause. If we had to say-she is lost, there would be no singing and no resting till she was found. It is the glory of Jesus that as a shepherd he has lost none of his flock, as the Captain of salvation he has brought many sons to glory, and has lost none, and hence he is admired, not in some that believe, nor yet in all but one, but he is "admired in all them that believe." Does not this delight you, you who are weak and trembling, that he will be admired in you? There is little to admire in you at present, as you penitently confess; but since Christ is in you now, and will be more fully manifested in you, there will ere long be much to admire. May you partake in the excellence of our divine Lord and be conformed to his likeness that he may be seen in you and glorified in you. you Another point of admiration will be the eternal safety of all his believing people. There they are safe from fear of harm. Ye dogs of hell, howled at their heels and hoped to devour them; but, lo, they are clean escaped from you! What must it be to be lifted above gun-shot of the enemy, where no more watch shall need to be kept, for even the roar of the Satanic artillery cannot be heard? Oh glorious Christ, to bring them all to such a state of safety, thou art indeed to be wondered at for ever. Moreover, all the saints will be so honoured, so happy, and so like their Lord that themselves and everything about them will be themes for never-ending admiration. You may have seen a room hung round with mirrors, and when you stood in the midst you were reflected from every point you were seen here, and seen there, and there again, and there again, and so every part of you was reflected; just such is heaven, Jesus is the centre, and all his saints like mirrors reflect his glory. Is he human? So are they! Is he the Son of God? So are they sons of God! Is he perfect? So are they! Is he exalted? So are they! Is he a prophet? So are they, making known unto principalities and powers the manifold wisdom of God. Is he a priest? So are they! Is he a King? So are they, for he hath made us priests and kings unto God, and we shall reign for ever and ever. Look where you will along the ranks of the redeemed, this one thing shall be seen, the glory of Christ Jesus, even to surprise and wonder. II. I have no time to make those SUGGESTIONS with which I intended to have finished, and so I will just tell you what they would have been. First, the text suggests that the principal subject for self-examination with us all should be,-Am I a saint? Am I holy? Am I a believer in Christ? Yes or no, for on that yes or no must hang your glorification of Christ, or your banishment from his presence. The next thing is-observe the small value of human opinion. When Christ was here the world reckoned him to be a nobody, and while his people are here they must expect to be judged in the same way. What do worldlings know about it? How soon will their judgment be reversed! When our Lord shall appear even those who sneered will be compelled to admire. When they shall see the glory of Christ in every one of his people, awe-stricken, they will have nothing to say against us; nay, not even the false tongue of malicious slander shall dare to hiss out a serpent word in that day. Never mind them, then; put up with reproach which shall so soon be silenced. The next suggestion is a great encouragement to enquirers who are seeking Christ; for I put it to you, you great sinners, if Jesus is to be glorified in saved sinners, would he not be glorified indeed if he saved. you? If he were ever to save such a rebel as you have been would it not be the astonishment of eternity? I mean you who are known in the village as Wicked Jack, or known as a common swearer-what if my Master were to make a saint of you! Bad raw material! Yet suppose he transformed you into a precious jewel, and made you to be as holy as God is holy, what would you say of him? "Say of him," say you, "I would praise him world without end." Yes, and you shall do so if you will come and trust him. Put your trust in him. The Lord help you to do so at once, and he shall be admired even in you for ever and ever. Our text gives an exhortation to believers also. Will Jesus Christ be honoured and glorified in all the saints? Then let us think well of them all, and love them all. Some dear children of God have uncomely bodies, or they are blind or deformed, or maimed; and many of these have scanty purses, and it may be the church knows most of them as coming for alms moreover, they have little knowledge, little power to please, and they are uncouth in manners, and belong to what are called the lowest ranks of society: do not, therefore, despise them, for one day our Lord will be glorified in them. How he will be admired in yonder poor bedridden woman when she rises from the workhouse to sing hallelujah to God and the Lamb among the brightest of the shining ones. Why, methinks the pain, the poverty, the weakness, and the sorrow of saints below will greatly glorify the Captain of their salvation as they tell how grace helped them to bear their burdens and to rejoice under their afflictions. Lastly, brethren, this text ought to encourage all of you who love Jesus to go on talking about him to others and bearing your testimony for his name. You see how the apostle Paul has inserted a few words by way of parenthesis. Draw the words out of the brackets, and take them home, "Because our testimony among you was believed." Do you see those crowds of idolatrous heathen, and do you see those hosts of saved ones before the throne? What is the medium which linked the two characters? By what visible means did the sinners become saints? Do you see that insignificant looking man with weak eyes? That man whose bodily presence is weak and whose speech is contemptible? Do you not see his bodkin and needle case? He has been making and mending tents, for he is only a tent-maker. Now, those bright spirits which shine like suns, flashing forth Christ's glory, were made thus bright through the addresses and prayers of that tent-maker. The Thessalonians were heathens plunged in sin, and this poor tentmaker came in among them and told them of Jesus Christ and his gospel; his testimony was believed; that belief changed the lives of his hearers and made them holy, and they being renewed came at length to be perfectly holy, and there they are, and Jesus Christ is glorified in them. Beloved, will it not be a delightful thing throughout eternity to contemplate that you went into your Sunday-school class this afternoon, and you were afraid you could not say much, but you talked about Jesus Christ with a tear in your eye, and you brought a dear girl to believe in his saving name through your testimony. In years to come that girl will be among those that shine out to the glory of Christ for ever. Or you will get away this evening, perhaps, to talk in a lodging-house to some of those poor, despised tramps; you will go and tell one of those poor vagrants, or one of the fallen women, the story of your Lord's love and blood, and the poor broken heart will catch at the gracious word, and come to Jesus, and then a heavenly character will be begun, and another jewel secured for the Reedemer's diadem. Methinks you will admire his crown all the more because, as you see certain stones sparkling in it, you will say, "Blessed be his name for ever: he helped me to dive into the sea and find that pearl for him," and now it adorns his sacred brow. Now, get at it, all of you! You that are doing nothing for Jesus, be ashamed of yourselves, and ask him to work in you that you may begin to work for him, and unto God shall be the glory, for ever and ever. Amen and amen. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON-2 Thessalonians i. ii. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK"-92, 873, 861. DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, JUNE 8TH, 1879, BY AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these. And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”—John i. 50, 51. WE cannot help making a few remarks upon the narrative before we proceed to the distinct subject of discourse. Certain catch words are exceedingly worthy of notice, since they are abundantly full of instruction. When Nathanael had doubts as to whether the Messiah could come from Nazareth, Philip answered him, "Come and see." Now, those were the precise words which the Lord Jesus had himself used to his earliest disciples when they began to follow him: he also said to them, "Come and see." It is always safe for us to use over again words which God has blessed. Did the Master say, "Come and see"? Then we cannot do better than say what Jesus said, and use as near as possible the inspired expressions. Was that short sentence," Come and see," made useful to other souls? Then those who would win souls cannot do better than use such gospel nets as have been tried and proved efficient in their own cases. Let none of us say that we cannot speak to others about their souls. There was one passage of Scripture which was the means of our conversion, and we cannot do better than repeat it in hearty tones to others, hoping that what God has blessed to us he may bless to others. Short as was the inviting word, "Come and see," it was full of wisdom. Our Lord knows the philosophy of the human mind, and understands how best to produce faith in doubting hearts. "Come and see is the sure cure for unbelief. Some would tell doubters to sit down and think, and create faith by reflecting on the nature of things. We may long consider the state of man and the condition of our own nature before we shall thereby be enlightened as to the way of salvation. If we would judge of Christ we must consider Christ himself. He is his own best argument. The cobweb spinnings of conceited brains are easily broken through, but the facts, the indisputable facts of the Saviour's life No. 1,478. Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." All who with a simple faith come and cast themselves upon the incarnate God, living and dying for men, and ever sitting at the right hand of God to make intercession for them,these are the people in whom Christ will be glorified and admired at the last great day. But inasmuch as they are first said to be saints, be it never forgotten that this faith must be a living faith, a faith which produces a hatred of sin, a faith which renews the character and shapes the life after the noble model of Christ, thus turning sinners into saints. The two descriptions must not be violently rent asunder; you must not say that the favoured people are sanctified without remembering that they are justified by faith, nor may you say that they are justified by faith without remembering that without holiness no man shall see the Lord, and that at the last the people in whom Christ will be admired will be those holy ones who were saved by faith in him. So far, then, we see our way, but now a question arises: by whom will Christ be thus glorified and admired? He shines in his people, but who will see the glory? I answer first, that his people will see it. Every saint will glorify Christ in himself, and admire Christ in himself. He will say, "What a wonder that such a poor creature as I am should be thus perfected! How glorious is my Lord, who has wrought this miracle upon me!" Surely our consciousness of having been cleansed and made holy will cause us to fulfil those words of John Berridge which we sang just now: "He cheers them with eternal smile, This I know, that when I personally enter heaven I shall for ever admire and adore the everlasting love which brought me there. Yes, we will all glorify and admire our Saviour for what he has wrought in us by his infinite grace. The saints will also admire Christ in one another. As I shall see you and you shall see your brethren and sisters in Christ all perfect, you will be filled with wonderment, and gratitude, and delight. You will be free from all envy there, and therefore you will rejoice in all the beauty of your fellow saints: their heaven will be a heaven to you, and what a multitude of heavens you will have as you will joy in the joy of all the redeemed! We shall as much admire the Lord's handiwork in others as in ourselves, and shall each one praise him for saving all the rest. You will see your Lord in all your brethren, and this will make you praise and adore him world without end with a perpetual amazement of evergrowing delight. But that will not be all. Besides the blood-bought and ransomed of Christ there will be on that great day of his coming all the holy angels to stand by and look on and wonder. They marvelled much when first he stooped from heaven to earth, and they desired to look into those things, which then were a mystery to them. But when they shall see their beloved Prince come back with ten thousand times ten thousand of the ransomed at his feet, all of them made perfect by having washed their robes and made them white in his blood, how the principalities and |