fear," preached Peter. It is written that the fear of the Lord is the instruction in wisdom. It is written that it is the beginning of wisdom, or light. If thine eye seek the Lord only, thy whole body shall be full of wisdom. If thine eye seek the Lord only, He will fulfill thy desire. If thine eye seek the Lord only, He will be thy strong confidence. If thine eye choose the High Deliverer, thy dominion shall rise up.

Thus have the inspired among men written in their own risen moments, always showing by their instructions that their risen kingship stirred forth from the bed of lowly-heartedness. And always lowly-heartedness before Supreme Majesty, else how should kingship rise with its sceptre? "To this man will I look, even to him that .. . trembleth at my word," saith the Supreme Lord.

Jeremiah trembled at sight of the danger streak in the Jews' sum total of character. The wicked and foolish trait deplored by all the Jewish wise men had glued Jeremiah's unmitigated attention. Out of the molten depths of his anguish he forged the prophecy of doom in which that trait would lawfully ultimate. It has taken centuries on centuries for the Jews to labour out from under the black bar of Jeremiah's decree:

"Your inheritance shall be turned to strangers,
God is wroth against you, 0 people of Zion!"

Jeremiah sometimes forgot the sin streak of the Jews, and looking above them saw them above themselves, for seconds of time, as the High God saw them:

"In those days shall Judah be saved . . . for thus saith the Lord; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne . .