roubled, neither let it be afraid.' I was arrested at
the fourth verse, 'Whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.' I have
had many comfortable exercises on the eighth verse, the Redeemer's
answer to Philip's inquiry. But this morning my mind was led to a
different view of that saying, and which I think was literally
included. The Redeemer was going to his Father, and his way lay
through death, the death of the cross. The hour was at hand when he
was to make his holy and righteous soul an offering for sin, that he
might become the author of salvation to all who obey him. All the sins
confessed and pardoned by the sacrifices under the law were laid on
this blessed Surety--they were only the shadows, he was the
substance--the real Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the
world, was now to be offered up. This was he who said, 'Sacrifice and
offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me; in
burnt-offerings and offerings for sin thou hast had no pleasure; then
said I, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God:' by which will we are
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all.

"He was going to the garden--Oh that garden! Peter had said he
was able to drink of that cup and to be baptized with that baptism. Ah
no, Peter; that exceeding sorrow in the garden, when no visible hand
was upon him, was a cup the least drop of which would have overwhelmed
the strongest angel. No strength short of omnipotent could have
sustained that hour and power of darkness. It was not the scourge, the
thorns, the nails, nor the last pangs of dissolution; through all
these he was as a lamb led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers, dumb. It was a mysterious horror, of which no created being
can have any conception. It was this that wrung the great drops of
blood through every pore of his sacred body--this that extorted the
agonizing prayer, 'Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from
me;' and again, in his last moments on the cross, 'My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?' Blessed, for ever blessed be our Jehovah
Jesus, who said, 'Not my will, but thine be done.' The will of God was
done, and he said, 'It is finished,' and gave up the ghost.

"All his people must follow him by the way of death; nearly all
his disciples followed by the death of the cross, and many others
after them, supported by his almighty grace, rejoiced that they were
counted worthy to suffer for his sa