obscure village, the simple, illiterate Curé d’Ars, as “the friends of God are made exceedingly honourable”. Whilst high above all, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, is a village Carpenter of heretofore. Truly God’s ways are not our ways! When I see as He sees, there will be no heartburnings, no pining for anything however good in itself that has not found place in His designs for me. Narrow views will melt away so completely as to be deemed wholly inexplicable in the past; egotism disappear in the burst of admiration at the design revealed in creation. What will be my delight to have a place, my particular place, in that glorious scheme! What my regret, as I turn away to purgatory, that I have failed to co-operate in the perfecting of the whole in the measure determined for me! And this I shall see soon! Soon I shall be viewing all things from God’s standpoint, the only one possible in the land of Truth. Recognising at last in my outfit a marvellous adaptation of means to the end, I shall see wherein He has loved me. I shall bless His will that has ordered all things sweetly. I shall trace His love in withholding as well as in giving, in ordaining my limitations and deficiencies no less than my aptitudes as means for attaining to my place in His kingdom. The greater or less glory and happiness of that place will be a matter of indifference to me. To reach the degree in which _He_ would place me, to satisfy _Him_, to give Him throughout eternity the praise and reverence and service He asks of me--this will be the only ambition possible to my enlightened understanding and will. “In Thy light we shall see light.”[121] * * * * * O Father, that it might be thus even now! That now, whilst my place in heaven is to be sought and reached, I might have the light and strength to accept, not with resignation only--this were too poor a gratitude--but with deepest, tenderest thankfulness, the means fashioned to my hand, designed by Your wisdom _for me_! [113] 1 Cor. ii. [114] _Ibid._ [115] Psa. cxviii. [116] Deut. xxxii. [117] Ecclus. iv. [118] Rom. ix. [119] Apoc. iv. [120] St. James i. [121] Psa. xxxv. XXXVIII. TWILIGHT AND NOON. My eyes are ever towards the Lord.--_Psa._ xxiv. 15.