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Thine: and all things that are Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine: and I am glorified in them. And I am no more in the world, and these are fiful in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, Pray keep them in Thy name which Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, even as We are. While I was with them, I kept them in Thy name which Thou hast given Me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them from the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth: Thy word is truth. As Thou didst send Me into the world, even so sent I them into the world. And for their sakes, I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Neither for these only do I pray, but for them
also that believe on Me through their word; that
they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in
Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us;

that the world may believe that Thou didst send

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Me. And the glory which Thou hast given Me, I Bean have given unto them: that they may be one, even as We are one; I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and lovest them, even as Thou lovedst Me. Father, I desire that they also whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me: for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world.

O righteous Father, the world knew Thee not, but I knew Thee; and these knew that Thou didst send Me; and I made known unto them Thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith Thou lovedst Me, may be in them, and I in them.-John 17.

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The Savior's Desire for Himself

HAT a book of devotion and of revelation that would contain all the prayers of Jesus! Not many of His prayers are recorded, though He prayed much. If the silent fields and hills of Palestine could echo to our ears the prayers of Jesus during His all-night vigils, what a revelation it would be of the heart of the world's Redeemer. We should probably find, if we studied His prayers chronologically, that many things He prayed for at first gradually dropped out and other things came in. This is true, at least, of our prayers. Those unrecorded prayers are buried in the heart of God, and we shall never know them. But we are content with having what is probably Christ's best prayerHis "Intercessory Prayer" on the night before the crucifixion. Why best? Because His earthly life was at its close, and He was praying with the eternal world only a few hours away. His prayers had been refined by the experiences of the troublous years now gone. A review of our

own prayers will show that mere temporalities

one by one fall out and the spiritual and eternal Beau fiful fined residuum of all Christ's praying, contain- Dray ing His highest desire for Himself and His best ens wish for Christians.

remain. This prayer in the seventeenth of John

is the quintessence of the spiritual. It is the re

"Father, the hour is come." A terrible hour it was the hour for which He had come into the world; the hour toward which He had been looking, and of which He had been prophesying; the dark hour that had cast a shadow over all His life; the hour of test, the hour of failure or of glory; the hour into which the accumulated energies of a whole life were to be concentrated and tested. For this hour Jesus had been living and getting ready. An early Methodist preacher, after a long life of service, had come to the deathhour. A bystander asked, "In this last hour, brother, how is it in your soul? Does it stand the test?" He replied, "I have been living for this hour." THE hour comes to all of us. It is not always the last hour, but it is the supreme hour when the life we have been building must summon all its reserve forces to stand the test. To each of us comes the hour which is a test of all former hours. Well for us if, like Jesus, we recognize THE HOUR when it comes.

In the face of this hour, what does Jesus ask for Himself? The best thing anybody could ask in the critical hour: "Glorify Thy Son, that the Son may glorify Thee. . . . I glorified Thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which Thou hast given Me to do. And now, Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self.” Not for power against His foes, not for earthly empire, not for deliverance, not for vindication, not for any temporality; but for the glory of God. How can God and man mutually glorify the other? A sculptor takes a shapeless lump of clay, dreams over it a lovely dream, puts his hand to the clay, and molds it into likeness to his dream. How patiently he works! At last it is a dream in clay. Then he sets his artisans to work upon the stone, which under his eye grows into the likeness of his vision. A touch here, another there-and at last the marble statue stands forth glorified by the creative power of the artist. The man has glorified the marble: but can the marble glorify the man? Yes-its perfection of beauty directs the admiration of the beholder not only to itself but to him who gave it; and we inquire, "Whose work is this?" The man glorified the marble and the marble glorified the man. So does God glorify us with His own beautiful thought— with His own self-and others seeing our good