in My name, He may give
it you."--JOHN xv. 16.

In the study of the starry heavens, how much depends upon a due
apprehension of magnitudes. Without some sense of the size of the
heavenly bodies, that appear so small to the eye, and yet are so great,
and of the almost illimitable extent of the regions in which they move,
though they appear so near and so familiar, there can be no true
knowledge of the heavenly world or its relation to this earth. It is
even so with the spiritual heavens, and the heavenly life in which we
are called to live. It is specially so in the life of intercession, that
most wondrous intercourse between heaven and earth. Everything depends
upon the due apprehension of magnitudes.

Just think of the three that come first: There is a world, with its
needs entirely dependent on and waiting to be helped by intercession;
there is a God in heaven, with His all-sufficient supply for all those
needs, waiting to be asked; there is a Church, with its wondrous calling
and its sure promises, waiting to be roused to a sense of its wondrous
responsibility and power.

_God seeks intercessors._--There is a world with its perishing millions,
with intercession as its only hope. How much of love and work is
comparatively vain, because there is so little intercession. A thousand
millions living as if there never had been a Son of God to die for
them. Thirty millions every year passing into the outer darkness without
hope. Fifty millions bearing the Christian name, and the great majority
living in utter ignorance or indifference. Millions of feeble, sickly
Christians; thousands of wearied workers, who could be blessed by
intercession, could help themselves to become mighty in intercession.
Churches and missions sacrificing life and labour often with little
result, for lack of intercession. Souls, each one worth more than
worlds, worth nothing less than the price paid for them in Christ's
blood, and within reach of the power that can be won by intercession. We
surely have no conception of the magnitude of the work to be done by
God's intercessors, or we should cry to God above everything to give
from heaven the spirit of intercession.

_God seeks intercessors._--There is a God of glory able to meet all
these needs. We are told that He delights in mercy, that He waits to be
gracious, that He longs to pour out His blessing; that the love that
gave the Son to death is the measure of the love that each moment hove