Thus it was that Isaiah stood before Jehovah's throne. And oh, what a place for a sinner to stand in! There are no excuses there--no palliating circumstances there--no qualifying clauses there--no blaming of men or things there. There is but one object seen there--seen in its guilt, its wretchedness and its ruin, and that object is SELF, and as to that object the tale is easily told. It is all summed up in that most solemn, weighty, suggestive word, "UNDONE." Yes; self is undone. That is all that can be said about it. Do what you will with it, and you cannot make it out to be aught but a hopeless, undone thing; and the more speedily and thoroughly this is understood the better. Many take a long time to learn this foundation truth. They have not, as it were, stood in the full blaze of the throne, and as a consequence they have not been led to cry out with sufficient depth, emphasis or intensity, "I am undone!" It is the glory that shines from the throne which evokes the cry from the very depths of the soul. All who have ever stood before that throne have given utterance to the same confession, and it will ever be found that just in proportion to our experience of the _light_ of the _throne_ will be our experience of the _grace_ of the _altar_. The two things invariably go together. In this day of _grace_ the throne and the altar are connected. In the day of _judgment_ "the great white throne" will be seen without any altar. There will be no grace then. The _ruin_ will then be seen without the _remedy_, and as for the _result_, it will be eternal perdition. Awful reality! O reader, beware of having to meet the light of the throne without the provision of the altar! This conducts us, naturally, to the second object in the interesting scene before us, namely, _the altar_. The very moment Isaiah gave utterance to the deep conviction of what he was, he was introduced to the divine provisions of God's altar. "Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged."