"He is counting on you. Oh! the wonder and grace, To look Christ in the face And not be ashamed; For you gave what He claimed, And you laid down your all For His sake--at His call. He had counted on you, And you failed not. What then?"[33] Ah! Please God, by His grace, we shall not fail in _the ruling purpose_ of our lives. We may crown Him Lord of all. We _can_. He asks it. We surely _will_. "With all my powers Him I greet, All subject to His call; And bowing low at His pierced feet _Now_ crown him Lord of all." FOOTNOTES: [1] Joseph Addison Richards. [2] Mark xvi. 19. [3] Matthew xxvi. 64. [4] Acts ii. 33; iii. 13-16; v. 31-32; vii. 55, 56. [5] Psalm lxviii. 18; Ephesians iv. 8; Acts ii. 33. [6] Romans viii. 34; Ephesians i. 20-22; Philippians ii. 9-11; Colossians iii. 1. [7] I Peter iii. 22. [8] Hebrews i. 3; ii. 8-9; viii. 1; x. 12; xii. 2. [9] Revelation iii. 21. [10] Acts ii. 36. [11] Romans x. 9. [12] I Samuel xvi. 6; xxiv. 6, 10; II Samuel i. 14-16; xix. 21, and elsewhere; Psalm xviii. 50, and frequently in Psalms. [13] John i. 20, 25; Luke iii. 15. [14] Philippians ii. 10; I Corinthians xv. 24-26. [15] John xvii. 5; i. 1-3; Colossians i. 15-17. [16] Matthew xxvi. 64; Acts ii. 22-24, 32-36; Philippians ii. 9-11; Hebrews ii. 9. [17] Hebrews ii. 5-18. [18] Romans vii. 19-22; Jeremiah ix. 10; xii. 4, 11; xxiii. 10; Genesis iii. 17-19; Acts iii. 21. [19] Ephesians i. 20-22; Hebrews ii. 6-8. [20] Philippians ii. 9-11. [21] Ephesians vi. 12; Colossians ii. 15. [22] Colossians ii. 10; Ephesians iii. 10; iv. 8-10; I Corinthians xv. 24. [23] Hebrews ii. 8. [24] II Peter iii. 8-9; Romans ii. 4; ix. 22; Revelation ii. 21; I Peter iii. 20; II Peter iii. 15; Exodus xxxiv. 6-7. [25] James v. 7. [26] F. M. N. [27] Ephesians i. 20-22. [28] Ephesians iii. 20. [29] John xiv. 12-14. [30] Hebrews x. 13. [31] Acts iii. 21. [32] Frances Ridley Havergal. [33] Mrs. Bessie Porter Head. II.--THE CROWN BOOK "All hail the power of Jesus' Name! Let angels prostrate fall: Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown Him Lord of all. "O that with yonder sacred throng We at His feet may fall, Join in the everlasting song And crown Him Lord of all! "With all my powers Him I greet, All subject to His call; And bowing low at His pierced feet, _Now_ crown Him Lord of all. "I hail the power of Jesus' Name, Before Him gladly fall, Bring Him my own heart's diadem And crown Him Lord of all!" The Crowning Book. There is a _crown book_ in this old Book of God,--the Revelation of John. It is _the_ crown book, the only one. It is the crown book of the sixty-six in two senses. It is the capping climax of the whole revelation of God's Word. It gathers up into itself in a peculiar way the dominant characteristics of both the Hebrew Old and the Greek New Testaments.