disposal. It is
in the restfulness of faith that we must look to God the
Sanctifier; He will come in and keep His holy Sabbath in the
restful soul. We rest in God's rest; God rests in our rest.

4. The God that rests in man whom He made, and in resting sanctifies,
and in sanctifying blesses: this is our God; praise and worship
Him. _And trust Him to do His work._

5. Rest! what a simple word. The Rest of God! what an inconceivable
fulness of Life and Love in that word. Let us meditate on it and
worship before Him, until it overshadow us and we enter into
it--the Rest of God. _Rest_ belongeth unto God: He alone can give
it, by making us share His own.

Fourth Day.

HOLY IN CHRIST.

Holiness and Revelation.

'And when the Lord saw that Moses turned aside to see, He called
unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And
he said, Here am I. And He said, Draw not nigh hither; put off thy
shoes from thy feet, for the place where thou standest is _holy_
ground. And Moses hid his face, for He was afraid to look upon
God.'--Ex. iii. 4-6.

And why was it holy ground? Because God had come there and occupied it.
Where God is, there is holiness; it is the presence of God makes holy.
This is the truth we met with in Paradise when man was just created;
here, where Scripture uses the word _Holy_ for the second time, it is
repeated and enforced. A careful study of the word in the light of the
burning bush will further open its deep significance. Let us see what
the sacred history, what the revelation of God, and what Moses teaches
us of this holy ground.

1. Note the place this first direct revelation of God to man as the Holy
One takes in sacred history. In Paradise we found the word _Holy_ used
of the seventh day. Since that time twenty-five centuries have elapsed.
We found in God's sanctifying the day of rest a promise of a new
dispensation--the revelation of the Almighty Creator to be followed by
that of the Holy One making holy. And yet throughout the book of Genesis
the word never occurs again; it is as if God's Holiness is in abeyance;
only in Exodus, with the calling of Moses, does it make its appearance
again. This is a fact of deep import. Just as a parent or teacher seeks,
in early childhood, to impress one lesson at a time, so God deals in the
education of the human race. After having in the flood exhibited His
righteous jud