move on and on to that vision which the man saw who in the paschal chamber rested on the Saviour's breast, and taught us afterward that from being beloved of God, and being his children, we shall ascend to loftier heights, for when He shall appear whom our hearts love, and we shall look upon Him in the eternal vision, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him, even as He is; and till that is perfected, our very likeness to Him will be the desire for the perfecting of the image, and our Christlike life will be our Christlike prayer. "More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. For what were men, ... If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." THE VIRTUE OF CLEAN HANDS THERE was a doctrine much enjoyed by our fathers which they called "The perseverance of the saints." It rested upon the belief that one who had entered upon the Christian life and had been born of God would be faithful to the end. This was encouraged by the confidence of the apostle that He who has begun a good work in the hearts of men will carry it to perfection, and by the assurance of our Lord that He would abide with his friends, and by his prayer that they might be kept from the evil of the world and brought where they should behold his glory. The doctrine might have been entitled, therefore, the continuance of grace, or, again, the constancy of love. The truth which is expressed is full of comfort for times of discouragement, and of inspiration in all the difficulty of the Christian way. Certainly every man ought so to live that the doctrine shall be a part of his daily thought. We come upon this teaching in the ancient Scriptures. We find Job confessing his faith in |