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It is in an hour like this in the life of Christ that eng we can best glorify God. The hour of test is the hour of disgrace or of glory. A certain man digged deep and built a house upon the rock. The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not. The hour of stress and strain was the hour of glory for the house and for its maker. How God glorified the Son and the Son the Father during the next nine hours after this prayer! With what perfection of manhood did Jesus endure Gethsemane, the betrayal and arrest, the unjust trials, the crucifixion. God had glorified Him with His own self indeed, and now He was glorifying God on the earth by accomplishing the work God had given Him to do.

May this be our glory and our boast in the final hour.

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ing accomplished the work Thou hast given Me Pray to do." God gives some people special work to ens do. Some people nowadays are asking dubiously, "Do you believe in a special divine call?" That question is usually asked by those who never had such a call. One who has ever had a God-given task never asks that question. To doubt the divine call to special service is to doubt that God's Spirit has any influence on man's spirit; and that is to leave us orphans. But Jesus said, "I will not leave you orphans: I come to you." Man's spirit is not an orphan: we have a living Father who communes with us. To deny the call to special work is to deny that communion. Affirm God's communion with man, and you affirm that some have a God-given work. The consciousness of such a work is no less clear to him who has it than is the consciousness that he loves his friends. Seen in the perspective and proportion of the years, who, except a sheer

atheist, can doubt that God detailed for special service Paul, who introduced Christianity into Europe; Luther, who stayed the blight of a corrupt church; Tyndale, who gave us the Bible in English; Wesley, who saved a dying Protestantism by a baptism of the evangelistic spirit; Carey, the inspirer of the modern missionary movement; Mackay, the apostle of Uganda; William Butler, founder of Methodist missions in Mexico and India; Bishop Thoburn, the missionary statesman; Frances Willard, the angel of temperance; and a thousand others in the field of religion, invention, statesmanship, and learning? How the call comes need not concern us. The important fact is-it comes.

There is another important fact: Given the work, it is our part to accomplish it, and thus glorify God on the earth. The consciousness of a Godgiven work made Jesus an indefatigable worker. "We must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day. The night cometh when no man can work," He said. For Him, the night was now coming fast, with a horrible darkness; but as it fell, He could bow His head and say, "It is finished." It was no wasted life that went out in that hour. What of your life? Will death put an end to shirking, or to working?

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ming up the work by which He had glorified God, He says, "I have manifested Thy name unto the men whom Thou gavest Me out of the world." Christ's work was to make the character of God a matter of human knowledge-to take God out of the Unknown and the Unknowable, and make Him manifest. "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him." To make His Father's name manifest was the inspiration and motive of all Christ's words and works, and living and dying. Did He rebuke scribes and Pharisees with bitter severity? It was to show God's hate for sin. Did He proclaim ethical truth? It was to show God's righteousness and will. Did He heal the afflicted? It was to manifest a Father's power and sympathy. When He took the twelve into His confidence and talked with them heart to heart, He was manifesting God as friend. When He prayed, it was God yearning for men. When He died, He manifested God's love-His last best Name of Love. All the details of His life manifested the Divine Name. To Philip's request to show us the Father, Christ could say, "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father." Jesus was God manifest in the flesh. It is mysterious, but it is true. Making God plain-that was a work indeed. And

Christ said He had accomplished it. If He has not, to whom shall we go?

Is that your work and mine, too? Since Jesus has made it sure what God is like-Yes: for we can

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be like Him; and so, like God. We can reflect Pray His glory. His name can be written upon us. erg Through us the world can know what Christianity is what God is like. Many do not read the Bible, but they read us like a book. We are "epistles known and read of all men." To make God manifest—that is our God-given work, and all things we do should be doing that. Maybe we shall fail in our business; our plans may miscarry; methods may be mistaken; but in all this we should not fail to make God manifest unto men. Successful men are not always a success in manifesting God. People who fail often best succeed at that. Byron Palmer, the talented young Ohio minister, who, in the midst of success was suddenly stricken with a strange disease that gradually turned him to stone, in his unmurmuring patience and loving trustfulness manifests God better in failure than he might have done in health. H. G. Spafford, the Chicago lawyer, who lost his whole fortune in a financial panic, then his four children in a wreck at sea, and then wrote that beautiful song of trust, "It is Well with My Soul," manifested God's