The sentence was pronounced against the children of outer darkness when God said, _My face will I turn also from them_. The hiding of that countenance is the source of all ills. _My face will I turn from them!_ they have set the face of men before them in the place of Mine. They have loved the beauty of human countenances rather than the glory of Mine which is divine. _My face will I turn from them!_ I, who turned not My face from those who spat upon it, and buffeted Me. _My face will I turn from them_, and My face is _as the sun_, and _they shall never see light_; My face, which is the source of all gladness; _Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart_, and they shall be sad; My face, the prospect of beholding which tempers more than did the hopes of possessing Rachel. They shall labour for ever without rest, or solace, or refreshment. And this is the sum of their woes, that Jesus, whom they lost in the way of life, they find not again, and shall not see or grasp through ages evermore. 7. Oh, weeping mother of Jesus! who soughtest Him whom thou hadst lost, through no fault of thine own; by that pain, that anxiety, that aching void thou didst endure through three days when thy Son was absent; keep, I pray thee, thy Jesus and my Jesus in our souls, that we may never lose Him through our grave offence. Rather may the world perish, and all the vanity therein, than that thy Jesus should be lost to us! Rather may health and life, and good report, and fortune, hope and all things perish, if only we may keep Jesus, without whom all things else are nought, for He is all in all. The Second Sunday after Easter. Rural Sermon. _On Heaven._—VI. The unity and concord of the Heaven-dwellers. John x. 16. _There shall be one fold and one shepherd._ 1. And when will that happy time at last arrive, when the fold will be but one, and one the Shepherd, so that once more all shall be _of one heart and of one soul_ among those that believe? Alas! the fold of Christ has ever been broken through: Nicolaitans and Corinthians in apostolic times, then Gnostics, Manichæans, Arians, Donatists. These were followed by Iconoclasts, Albigenses, Hussites and sects of this age, which I will not name[3]. Shall there ever be discord in the faith? Shall we in the same fold be ever severed in heart?… Unity is not to be found here: not here, but in Heaven, where the Pastor is one, and the God triune; where the flock is twofold, human and angelic. Of the concord of the blessed shall I now speak.…