a new accession of assurance. There comes to us, as by a voice from on high, a new testimony and corroboration of the truth of what we believe. And we go away, not only knowing more, but feeling surer. And, in truth, it is only such things that give us true assurance. It is not outside proofs or arguments that will sustain us: it is experience, it is direct vision only. "We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory." VII A FATHER'S FAITH AND ITS REWARD MARK ix. 14-29 THE Mount of Transfiguration was apparently not a lofty mountain. It was high enough for Christ when upon it to be out of the world, and to feel the presence of His Father only; and thus for His brief earthly life to vanish, and the glory which He had with God before the world was to meet the glory that was to be His for ever, and so make His existence one continuous line of glory. It was high enough for this; and yet not too high for Him immediately to descend from it and enter among men,-to see their sorrows and afflictions, and the impotence of all besides Himself to cure them. And in this way that mount of glory, and this scene of sorrow and weakness at its foot, might be taken as symbols of something much larger-of Christ's glory now in the heavens, and of the sick world lying beneath them. Though Christ may seem far in His unapproachable glory, He is indeed near, and can immediately descend in all His power to heal. There are just two things in the passage which may |