"The Lord discovereth deep things out of the darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death," says Job (12, 22). When Judas had agreed to betray Jesus, he concealed that evil secret in the innermost chamber of his heart. But Jesus saw it in there. He saw that this secret of darkness would push Judas into the darkness without--down to despair--to perdition. Therefore Jesus made an attempt to bring out that secret from the darkness when they sat together at the Easter meal. That is my understanding of Jesus' pointing out Judas as the traitor. It is as though he would say to him: O, listen, Judas, let us bring that dark secret out into the light so that it may be forgiven! But Judas arose and went away. He wanted to keep the evil secret to himself. Happy he or she who asks Jesus to bring forth the evil secrets from the heart so that they may be repented and forgiven--so that their power may be crushed! Then, on the great day they shall be revealed as having been _repented of_ and _forgiven_--to the glory of the Lord who has released us from the fetters of the evil secrets. But it is not only the evil secrets that are to be revealed in the light of the day. _All_ secrets are to be revealed. Does man possess other secrets than those of the darkness? Will there not be very little to bring forth in the way of good secrets from the recesses of the heart? No, thank God, there will be thousands of them. All those loving thoughts which you conceived in secret, and which you never found a chance to express--they shall be revealed on that great day. All the heavy sighs and all the burning prayers which have issued forth from the depths of the heart in secret, shall be made known in the light. And they are countless. Generation after generation has witnessed parents praying for their children--O, could we but realize a small part of all that which has been fought for and prayed for in secret! Then we would be surprised to know that someone had _thought so lovingly, had prayed so fervently, and struggled so earnestly for our sake--in secret_. All these good and pure secrets shall be revealed on the great day. How radiantly they will testify that the human heart has not been merely the battlefield of the secrets of darkness, as some seem to believe. And together with all the evil secrets, repented of and forgiven, they shall glorify our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who endowed us with the gift of _wanting to_ think lovingly, pray fervently, and struggle earnestly in secret. NOT IN WORD, NEITHER IN TONGUE "MY little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth" (I. John 3, 18). Five little girls stood in a garden telling each other how dearly each one of them loved her mother. The words became more and more emphatic until finally Bertha--the eldest of them--poking her nose upward, said decisively: "I love my mamma so much that I could die for her sake." And thus everyone was brought to silence.