August 14

Lord, shew us the Father. — JOHN xiv. 8.

He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. — JOHN xii. 44, 45.

"JESUS cried;" his voice then rang clearly through the temple's marble courts, as he uttered loudly this mystery of truth. So Jesus cries down through the ages to ourselves. The "cries" of Jesus, loud, loving, entreating, to heedless, self-deafened men!

"To believe, and to see." A few of those to whom he then cried did believe on him, were ready to follow, obey, that blessed voice. So, also, some of those to whom his cry now comes. But the "believing" involves the "seeing" Christ. As the heart yields to the cry of Jesus, in this belief comes, sooner or later, a mental and spiritual "vision" of the adorable One that floods the soul with joyous light.

To believe, and so to see, Christ is to do more, — it is to know the Father too; it is to reach God, the infinite One, and the glory unapproachable. Like Moses, trembling, we too desire to see. Now the truth of Christ's divinity and the mystery of the union of the Persons in the Godhead are here involved; we behold "God in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself." In the rapturous vision of Christ we believe, we see the Father himself; we behold, we reach unto God, O blessed anticipation of heaven's privilege, even here on earth! Think of seeing God! We do, in believing on Christ.

Listen to this "cry" of Jesus; believe Christ, and you shall see his beauty. In him you shall see the Father, and in time the full glories of the home above.

Aaron P. Atterbury

Thou art the way; to thee alone, From sin and death we flee. And he who would the Father seek, Must seek him, Lord, by thee.

BISHOP DOANE.