s of the disciple family no more. Judas could not
understand in what special and exclusive manner Jesus would manifest
himself to his own. Perhaps he expected some setting apart of Christ's
followers like that which had fenced off Israel from the other nations.
But Jesus swept away his disciple's thought of any narrow
manifestation. There was only one condition--love. To every one who
loved him and obeyed his words he would reveal himself. The
manifesting would not be any theophany, as in the ancient Shekinah, but
the spiritual in-dwelling of God.

After these questions of his disciples had all been answered, Jesus
continued his farewell words. He left several bequests to his friends,
distributing among them his possessions. We are apt to ask what he had
to leave. He had no houses or lands, no gold or silver. While he was
on his cross the soldiers divided his clothes among themselves. Yet
there are real possessions besides money and estates. One may have won
the honor of a noble name, and may bequeath this to his family when he
goes away. One may have acquired power which he may transmit. It
seemed that night in the upper room as if Jesus had neither name nor
power to leave to his friends. To-morrow he was going to a cross, and
that would be the end of everything of hope or beauty in his life.

Yet he quietly made his bequests, fully conscious that he had great
possessions, which would bless the world infinitely more than if he had
left any earthly treasure. One of these bequests was his peace.
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you." It was his own
peace; if it had not been his own he could not have bequeathed it to
his friends. A man cannot give to others what he has not himself. It
was his own because he had won it. Peace is not merely ease, the
absence of strife and struggle; it is something which lives in the
midst of the fiercest strife and the sorest struggle. Jesus knew not
the world's peace,--ease and quiet; but he had learned a secret of
heart-quietness which the world at its worst could not disturb. This
peace he left to his disciples, and it made them richer than if he had
given them all the world's wealth.

Another of his possessions which he bequeathed was his joy. We think
of Jesus as the Man of sorrows, and we ask what joy he had to give. It
seemed a strange time, too, for him to be speaking of his joy; for in
another hour he was in the midst of the Gethsemane anguish,