the law of "Thou shalt not." The sense of plenitude wakes the shout, "All hail sweet riches!" for the groan "I want!" This is for-giveness. It is the beauty given for ashes that Isaiah saw across the ages.

In everything Hezekiah, King of Judah did, he was prospered, because his heart was in it. But though Amaziah did the thing that was right, there was no enchantment in his deeds because his heart was not enlisted. The fire that John saw mingled with hail is the kindled heart.

And the blood that commingled was the new type of man that is even now among us, healing and protecting when he appears, as the young man in the furnace protected the three friends of the compassionate king and presented them to him unharmed.

And one-third of the trees and all the green grass are burnt up by the fire of the new heart and speech, continues John. All the competitives that constitute the ginger and glow of human encounter, flourishing like trees for strength, give way to the miracle that sets each man into his right place. The hastening periods of childhood, youth, old age, forego. The man standing in the fiery furnace knows nothing of the seasons of life that are like the grass. Obedience to the mandate, "Look unto Me," introduces a new order.

"I will give power unto My two watchers," was the promise John heard from above, meant for any two of us who now begin the high watch that wooeth the God power. "These are the two olive trees." These are those enriched and set in authority from above, not by effort, not by worthiness, but by resistless grace falling over their high watch, as were Moses and Aaron of the upward- visioned Kohathites. "These are the two candlesticks,"