mple it is to receive "of His fulness grace upon grace."
Look at this never ceasing spring of pure water, it never fails. You
approach it a weary, thirsty, dustladen traveler. You need to be
refreshed. You need the cooling drink. You need washing. What then
is necessary? Oh! to fill your cup. Just to take for it is for you.
And so this wonderful grace which flows out of His fulness. It is
for you, just come and take. Fill your cup, fill it again! Drink oh
drink! "Of His fulness have all we received, grace upon grace."

The Twenty-second Psalm.

The Cross of Christ.

THE Twenty-second Psalm contains a most remarkable prophecy. The
human instrument through whom this prophecy was given is King David.
The Psalm does not contain the experience of the King, though he
passed through great sufferings, yet the sufferings he speaks of in
this Psalm are not his own. They are the sufferings of Christ. It is
written in the New Testament that the prophets searched and enquired
diligently about the coming salvation. The Spirit of Christ, which
was in them testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ (1 Peter
i:10-11). David was a prophet, and in this great prophecy the Spirit
of Christ testified of the sufferings of Him, who is both David's
Lord and David's son.

The book of Psalms, so rich and full of Himself, so inexhaustible in
description of our ever blessed Lord, is divided into five books,
which correspond to the five books with which the Bible begins, the
Pentateuch. The first book (Psalm i-xli) contains some of the great
prophecies about the Christ of God; these prophecies are in the
so-called messianic Psalms. Perfect and divine is the order in which
they are revealed. _Son of God_--The Second Psalm. _Son of Man_
--The Eighth Psalm. _Obedient One_--The Sixteenth Psalm. _Obedient
unto Death_, the Death of the Cross--The Twenty-second Psalm.
_Highly exalted by God_--Revealed in each of these Psalms. This is
the order in which the Holy Spirit describes the path of the Lord in
Phil. ii:6-11. How perfect the Word of God is!

The Twenty-second Psalm, the center of the first part of the book of
Psalms, the Genesis portion, corresponds to the twenty-second
chapter in the book of Genesis. There we see Isaac bound upon the
altar having been led there and put upon the altar by his Father
while he opened not his mouth. Here we behold the true Isaac on the
cross. Everything in this Psalm speaks of our blessed Lord; in the