Christ  came  among  the  Jews  as  the  rain  upon  Gideon's  fleece,
leaving  all  around  dry  :  but  as  the  fleece  was  afterwards  left  dry


while  all  around  it  fell  the  rain,  so,  when  He  was  rejected  by  His
own  nation.  He  caused  the  Gentile  world  to  blossom  and  bear
fruit.  He  came,  therefore,  to  establish  an  universal  dominion
"  from  sea  to  sea,"  even  to  the  "  utmost  hounds  of  the  earth  ',"
to  establish  also  a  "  Kingdom  of  God  within  "  us,  from  the  sea  of
Baptism  to  the  sea  of  glass  before  the  throne,  one  from  the  flood
to  the  world's  end,  even  from  the  flood  of  destruction  to  the
"  river  of  the  water  of  life."  And  it  is  very  observable  that  this
perpetual  and  universal  Kingdom  depends  altogether  on  the
"righteousness"  of  the  King's  Son,  that  immaculate  holiness
and  obedience  which  enabled  Him  to  be  the  Saviour  of  sinners,
the  "work"  of  which  is  "peace,"  aud  the  efl'ect  of  it  "quietness
and  assurance  for  ever."

To  Him,  then,  is  the  "  gold "  of  worship  and  the  incense  of


I  "  Tharsis  and  the  isles"  indicate  all  known  and  unknown  regions  lying
beyond  the  Straits  of  Gibraltar.
416

Tlie  XIV.
Morning
Prai/er.
Isa.  Ti.  3.
Rev.  xviii.
THE  PSALMS.
Day


Pratier.
J;r.  xii.  1—4.
Jot  xii.  7—9.
Luke  xvi,  19.
I.uke  xii.  IS.
J')b  xxi.  H.
itev.  xiii.  1-


a/.  "Iiilo-


18  Blessed  be  the  Lord  God,  even
the  God  of  Israel  »  which  only  doeth
wondrous  things ;

19  And  blessed  be  the  Name  of  his
Majesty  for  ever  i  and  all  the  earth
shall  be  filled  with  his  IMajesty.
Amen,  Amen.
T'


THE  LXXIII  PSALM.
