, beloved in the Lord, is to be like Him, with
Him and to share His marvelous inheritance as His co-heirs. That
glorious vision is the evidence of our coming glory, when we shall
be transformed into His image that He might be the firstborn among
many brethren. As we gaze in the Spirit on Him who is crowned with
glory and honor we can see ourselves.

And as the age darkens, as the Laodicean state becomes more
prevalent, temptations and snares increase, the enemy's powers and
activities more marked, we need to open our eyes and hearts wider,
to take in the vision of our blessed head in Glory. Only in this way
can we be kept in these evil days. The only way of spiritual
progress, spiritual enjoyment, spiritual worship is to "behold as in
a glass the glory of the Lord," and beholding that glorious vision
we "are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by
the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Cor. vii:18).

This glorious vision will keep us in the place of separation. It
will make us heavenly-minded and produce in our lives the practical
results of the cross of Christ "crucified unto the world and the
world crucified unto me." Why do real Christians, who know the truth
and even know and speak of His Second Coming go along with the world
and delight in its ways? It is because the heart is departed from
Christ and has lost sight of the blessed and glorious vision. Years
ago a saint of God, who is now present with the Lord, made the
following statement:

"It sometimes happens that Christians have got so far away from
Christ in heart, that they become engrossed in the affairs of this
life, and some can even visit and enjoy the poor empty, tinselled
shows of this world's vanity. What could be more lamentable? They
forget that _death's stamp_ is deeply graven on everything this side
of resurrection. But such actions clearly prove that the heart must
have been away from Christ for some time."

Reader! if this means you return unto thy rest. Arise now and seek
His face and behold your Saviour, who was made a little lower than
the angels crowned with glory and honor.

May all our hearts, dear children of God, cry out with him, who knew
Him so well, the prisoner of the Lord "That I may know _Him_, and
the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings,
being made conformable unto His death" (Phil. iii:10). Soon we shall
know Him and all His glory.

I see a Man at God's right hand,
Upon the thron