pure and tender obedience to an unchangeable law. 5. The house of the Lord is to be a centre of judgment and rebuke towards people who are living in impiety and political corruption. The consequence of this judgment, if properly received, will be the establishment and perpetuation of righteous peace. When the nations are right with God, they will be right with each other. Merely negative peace may be disturbed, but the peace which comes by righteousness will be its own guarantee of completeness and continuity. 6. All these blissful anticipations should constrain towards present obedience, and be fruitful of present joy. So the prophet thought when he exclaimed, O house of Jacob, come ye, &c. Those who have great prospects should even now show themselves to be the heirs of glory. Christian joy is not all future. Even now, though we have to complain of so much of cloud and storm, there is a light that is distinctively divine, and under its benign rays we ought to walk until the fuller glory is revealed.--_Joseph Parker, D.D._ THE LATTER-DAY GLORY. ii. 2-5. _And it shall come to pass in the last days, &c._ Theme: _The Glory of the Latter Days._ "The last days," when men shall no longer need to offer the prayer, "Thy kingdom _come._" The glory of the latter days will consist--+I. In the exaltation of the Lord's house above all other institutions+ (ver. 2). Now the Exchange, the Senate, the University, &c., are the great "mountains" of society; then the sanctuary will be supreme. In other words, religion will be the ruling force in society, dominating and directing all the others. This is the truth set forth by the figure of the upraising of Mount Zion above all the other mountains, "so as to be visible in all directions." +II. In universal submission to the authority of God+ (ver. 3). Not by the Jews only (as in Isaiah's time), but by "_all_ nations,"[1] and not (as now) by some individuals merely, but by "all _nations,_" will this authority be recognised and obeyed. Sin will be the exception, righteousness the rule. And so, as a consequence of this--+III. In universal peace among men+ (ver. 4).[2] All contentions necessarily cease when men know and do the will of God. James iii. 14--iv. 1. Love towards man always results from genuine love toward God.