The  End  of  all  Things.  3

many  now  imperfect,  many,  we  trust,  who  are  out  of  that
Body,  many,  now  feebly  struggling,  or  hanging  yet  in  a
fearful  balance  between  good  and  ill,  between  Satan  and
God ;  many  now  led  captive  or  just  recovered  and  who  have
yet  to  weep  their  falls,  and  through  the  Blood  of  Christ
wash  out  their  sins  with  tears  of  penitence,  yea,  some  even
now  dead  and  buried  in  trespasses  and  sins,  shall  hear  the
Voice  of  Christ  and  live,  and  shall  be  owned  by  Him  in  the
Great  Day  as  His  own,  yea,  twice  His  own,  because  when
they  had  wasted  in  themselves  the  Price  of  His  Blood,  He
anew,  through  that  Blood,  restored  them.
All  are  saved  as  yet  in  hope  only.  And  so,  to  cheer  and
animate  us  in  our  strife,  our  Good  Lord  in  this  great  word
"  It  is  done,"  places  us  again  on  the  borders  of  our  Heavenly
rest,  thence  to  look  back  on  the  strifes,  and  toils,  and  cares,
and  temptations,  and  joys,  and  sorrows  of  this  fleeting  life,
as  things  past  and  "  done."  "It  is  done."  All,  that  is,
which  ever  shall  be  "  done."  Things  take  place  in  time
only.  In  Eternity  things  do  not  take  place,  are  not  "  done"
but  are.  To  be  done  implies  change.  What  we  do,  before
we  did  it,  was  not ;  what  just  now  was  to  be,  has  been.
