t point, except indefinitely, to the
cross, its flowing blood, its testimony to a love which the cold waters
of death could not staunch. Through the ages this has been the
master-motive, the supreme argument.

Then, again, the Master could not count upon the cooeperation of the
Spirit in His convicting power, as we can. "When He is come, He will
convict the world of sin"; but He did not come till after that brief
career of public ministry had closed. Speaking reverently, we may say
that the Church has an Ally that even her Master had not.

But the main reason is yet to come. Perhaps an illustration will best
explain it. Supposing the great painter, Raphael, were to infuse his
transcendent power, as he possessed it during his mortal life, into
some young brain, there is no reason why the genius of the immortal
painter should not effect, through a mere tyro in art, results in form
and color as marvellous as those which he bequeathed to coming time.
But suppose, further, that after having been three hundred years amid
the tones, forms, and colors of the heavenly world, he could return,
and express his thoughts and conceptions through some human medium,
would not these later productions be greater works than those which men
cherish as a priceless legacy? So if the Lord were to work in us such
works only as He did before He ascended to His glory, they would be
inferior to those which He can produce now that He has entered into His
glorified state, and has reassumed the power of which He emptied
Himself when He stooped to become incarnate. This is what He meant
when He said, "Because I go unto the Father."

Open your hearts to the living, risen, glorified Saviour. Let Him live
freely in your life, and work unhindered through your faith; expect Him
to pour through you as a channel some of those greater works which must
characterize the closing years of the present age. Remember how the
discourses and miracles of His earthly life even increased in
importance and meaning; for such must be the law of His ministry in the
heavenlies. According to our faith it will be unto us. The results
which we see around us are no measure of what Christ would or could do,
they indicate the straitening effect of our unbelief. Lift up your
heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye low-browed doors of
unbelief; and the King of Glory shall come in with His bright and
mighty retinue, and shall go out through human lives to do greater