What should that nation have shouted? "We are ready any day to forward an army to the triumph of our righteous cause!" Why should they have called the attention of our globe to sacrifice? Are we not soon showing forth that to which our inner gaze is directed? Sepulchre 1000 A. D. or Sacrifice 1917 A. D.? -- Who shall rouse the world to choose the sepulchre-and-sacrifice-undoing high watch?

Nothing shall by any means defeat us lifting up our eyes ofttime to Thee!

Elisha was enraged at Joash king of Israel, for not smiting the earth with his arrow five or six times, instead of only three times, when Joash was told by Elisha to smite the earth with his arrow. For five stands for successful labour, and six stands for labourless success, or the miracle of The Highest ever moving hitherward. The hyacinth bulb planted top side down labours desperately to bloom Chinaward, and succeeds in making an anaemic blossom, pale and small, but plain imitation of itself as it would be facing the sunshine and ambrosial morning airs. What does the downward looking hyacinth know of its own sun-facing, unanaemic wide-spreading beauty? So we have never seen a man of the Labourless Supernal order, facing the "Sun of Righteousness with healing in his wings," till the New Dispensation gave us its good news when he came toward us! An inspired full victory, or the labourless miracle, was Elisha's hope for Joash. But Joash had only three small victories over Ben-Hadad king of Syria, enemy of Jehovah, as his three arrowsmitings pre-figured -- wide indeed of the mark of the high success his royal right might claim.

"I will fetch my knowledge from afar," said Elihu, youngest of Job's advisers. "Behold, God exalteth by his power, who teacheth like him? -- He sealeth instruction