upon the throne of His glory with His holy angels with Him. One
would have thought that, if the Apostle wanted to speak of the
glorifying of Jesus Christ, he would have pointed to the great white
throne, His majestic divinity, the solemnities of His judicial office;
but he passes by all these, and says, 'Nay! the highest glory of the
Christ lies here, in the men whom He has made to share His own nature.'

The artist is known by his work. You stand in front of some great
picture, or you listen to some great symphony, or you read some great
book, and you say, 'This is the glory of Raphael, Beethoven,
Shakespeare.' Christ points to His saints, and He says, 'Behold My
handiwork! Ye are my witnesses. This is what I can do.'

But the relation between Christ and His saints is far deeper and more
intimate than simply the relation between the artist and his work, for
all the flashing light of moral beauty, of intellectual perfectness
which Christian men can hope to receive in the future is but the light
of the Christ that dwells in them, 'and of whose fulness all they have
received.' Like some poor vapour, in itself white and colourless, which
lies in the eastern sky there, and as the sun rises is flushed up into a
miracle of rosy beauty, because it has caught the light amongst its
flaming threads and vaporous substance, so we, in ourselves pale,
ghostly, colourless as the mountains when the Alpine snow passes off
them, being recipient of an indwelling Christ, shall blush and flame in
beauty. 'Then shall the righteous blaze forth like the sun in my
Father's kingdom.' Or, rather they are not suns shining by their own
light, but moons reflecting the light of Christ, who is their light.

And perchance some eyes, incapable of beholding the sun, may be able to
look undazzled upon the sunshine in the cloud, and some eyes that could
not discern the glory of Christ as it shines in His face as the sun
shineth in its strength, may not be too weak to behold and delight in
the light as it is reflected from the face of His servants. At all
events, He shall come to be glorified in the saints whom He has made
glorious.

II. And now, notice again, out of these full and pregnant words the
other thought, that this transformation of men is the great miracle and
marvel of Christ's power.

'He shall come to be admired'--which word is employed in its old English
signification, 'to be wondered at'--'in all them that believe.' So fair
and lovely i