Who can conceive all the surpassing blessedness connected with that advent? The Elder Brother arrived to fetch the younger brethren home!--the true Joseph revealing Himself in unutterable tenderness to the brethren who were once estranged from Him--"receiving them unto himself"--not satisfied with apportioning a kingdom for them, but, as if all His own joy and bliss were intermingled with theirs, "Where _I am_," says He, "there _you_ must be also." "Him that overcometh," says He again, "will I grant to sit with Me on My Throne." Believer, can you _now_ say with some of the holy transport of the apostle, "Whom having not seen, we love?" What must it be when you come to see Him "face to face," and that for ever and ever! If you can tell of precious hours of communion in a sin-stricken, woe-worn world, with a treacherous heart, and an imperfect or divided love, what must it be when you come, in a sinless, sorrowless state, with purified and renewed affections, to see the King in His beauty! The letter of an absent brother, cheering and consolatory as it is, is a poor compensation for the joys of personal and visible communion. The absent Elder Brother on the Throne speaks to you _now_ only by His Word and Spirit,--soon you shall be admitted to His immediate fellowship, seeing him "as He is"--He Himself unfolding the wondrous chart of His providence and grace--leading you about from fountain to fountain among the living waters, and with his own gentle hand wiping the last lingering tear-drop from your eye. _Heaven an everlasting home with Jesus!_ "Where I am, there ye may be also."--He has appended a cheering postscript to this word, on which He has "caused us to hope:"-- "HE WHICH TESTIFIETH THESE THINGS SAITH, SURELY I COME QUICKLY." 31ST DAY. "Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said"-- "Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching."--Luke xii. 37. The Closing Benediction. Child of God! is this thine attitude, as the expectant of thy Lord's appearing? Are thy loins girded, and thy lights burning? If the cry were to break upon thine ears this day, "Behold the Bridegroom cometh," couldst thou joyfully respond--"Lo, this is my God, I have waited for him?" WHEN He may come, we cannot tell;--ages may elapse before _then_. It may be centuries before our graves are gilded with the beams of a Millennial sun; but while He _may_ or may _not_ come _soon_, He _must_ come at some time--ay, and the day of our death is virtually to all of us the day of His coming.