" Ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." - 2 Corinthians 6:18.

This is the portion of those that come out from the world and are separated. Adam was called the son of God; for God breathed his own Spirit into him, and created him in his own image. The sons of God shouted for joy at the dawn of mundane things, and most of all, when they saw their new brother, the inhabitant of Eden. In order that we might recover the knowledge of what is meant by the expression, " Son of God," Jesus Christ came into the world. The Father speaking from heaven, bade us look on Him and recognize the type of what we were called to be.

The great things in sonship are identity of nature and identity of interests. Along with the identity of nature there is subordination; which is for the purpose of giving scope to the Father's love and capacity to bless. The Father recognizes the interests of the son as his, and looks upon all his property, his treasures of wisdom and knowledge, his resources created and uncreated, with reference to the blessing and glorifying of his sons and daughters. To acknowledge a son is to acknowledge an heir. The Father's house is the house of the son and of the daughter: they may go in without knocking; the mansions are prepared for them.

The world does not know you, sons and daughters of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and the world knows of no other birth than this: but ye are born of God. Unknown and invisible to others, your Father is the Lord of the universe. Daily you ask and receive; you are in constant intercourse with him; you sleep not without his blessing; you act not without his counsel; you suffer not without his consolation.

We know not what we shall be, for we know not yet what Christ is. We know in part. Christ came to teach one half of the lesson; he will come again to teach the other half. We shall see him as he is, and not as he was, when on the earth in a state of humiliation. Then will our exile be ended; the righteous shall shine forth in the kingdom of their Father.