. The unchanging Christ. viii CONTENTS. XXV. PAGE The Supreme Desire of the Devout Soul 271 Teach me to do Thy will ; for Thou art my God : Thyspirit is good ; lead me into the land of uprightness.—Ps. cxliii. 10. XXVI. The Delays of Love 282 *? Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and He had heard, therefore, tuat he was sick, Heabode two days still in the same place where He was.*—John xi. 5, 6. xxvn. A Parable in a Miracle 291 And there came a lepM- to Him, beseeching Him, andkneeling down to Him, and saying imto Him, If Thou• wilt. Thou canst make me clean. ** And Jesus, mo
. The unchanging Christ. viii CONTENTS. XXV. PAGE The Supreme Desire of the Devout Soul 271 Teach me to do Thy will ; for Thou art my God : Thyspirit is good ; lead me into the land of uprightness.—Ps. cxliii. 10. XXVI. The Delays of Love 282 *? Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and He had heard, therefore, tuat he was sick, Heabode two days still in the same place where He was.*—John xi. 5, 6. xxvn. A Parable in a Miracle 291 And there came a lepM- to Him, beseeching Him, andkneeling down to Him, and saying imto Him, If Thou• wilt. Thou canst make me clean. ** And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His Hand,and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thouclean. * And as soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosydeparted from him, and he was cleansed.—AIark xxvm. The Burden-bearing God 3^4 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits. —^) Blessed be the Lord, who daily heareth our burdens,*^— Ps. Ixviii. 19 (). S:be lllncbanaing Cbriat. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, andfor ever.—Heb. xiii. 8. OW far back does this yesterdaygo ? The limit must be found byobserving that it is Jesus Christ **who is spoken of—that is to say, theIncarnate Saviour. That observationdisposes of the reference of these words to the pasteternity in which the eternal Word of God was whatHe is to-day. The sameness that is referred to hereis neither the sameness of the Divine Son from alleternity, nor the sameness of the medium of reve-lation in both the old and the new dispensations,but the sameness of the human Christ to all gene-rations of His followers. And the epoch referredto in the yesterday is defined more closely ifwe observe the previous context, which speaks ofthe dying teachers who have had the rule andhave passed away. The yesterday is the periodof these departed teachers; the to-day ** is theperiod of the writer and his readers. THE UNCHANGING CHRIST. But whilst the words of my text are thus n
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