God with melody, but in deformity and in shame, in sighs and tears, with blood upon My cheek, and 5 with My limbs laid bare and rent. Gaze on Me, O My children, if you will, for I am helpless; gaze on your Maker, whether in contempt, or in faith and love. Here I wait, upon the Cross, the appointed time, the time of grace and mercy; here 10 I wait till the end of the world, silent and motionless, for the conversion of the sinful and the consolation of the just; here I remain in weakness and shame, though I am so great in heaven, till the end, patiently expecting My full catalogue of 15 souls, who, when time is at length over, shall be the reward of My passion and the triumph of My grace to all eternity. CHRIST UPON THE WATERS The earth is full of the marvels of Divine power; "Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night 20 showeth knowledge." The tokens of Omnipotence are all around us, in the world of matter, and the world of man; in the dispensation of nature, and in the dispensation of grace. To do impossibilities, I may say, is the prerogative of 25 Him who made all things out of nothing, who foresees all events before they occur, and controls all wills without compelling them. In emblem of this His glorious attribute, He came to His disciples in the passage I have read to you, walking upon the sea,--the emblem or hieroglyphic among the ancients of the impossible, to show them that what is impossible with man is 5 possible with God. He who could walk the waters, could also ride triumphantly upon what is still more fickle, unstable, tumultuous, treacherous--the billows of human wills, human purposes, human hearts. The bark of Peter was struggling 10 with the waves, and made no progress; Christ came to him walking upon them; He entered the boat, and by entering it He sustained it. He did not abandon Himself to it, but He brought it near to Himself; He did not merely take refuge 15 in it, but He made Himself the strength of it, and the pledge and cause of a successful passage. "Presently," another gospel says, "the ship was at the land, whither they were going."