Revelation 5:13

Happy are they who can use this language; - who have renounced the mad enterprise of fashioning themselves, and, ceasing to play presumptuously the part of potter, have come to the original Author of their being, that he may create them anew in righteousness and true holiness. Even Christians are sometimes long in understanding what part they are to play in the divine laboratory. The idea of the divine agency in the transformation of their souls, is shadowy; that of their own obligation,...

John describes his vision most vividly. "Then I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne - a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals." We may study this picture with great profit. The book is the scroll of the divine purposes - this much, at least, we know about it. As we look at it, we learn that God has purposes for His Church, and knows what the...