The hour is approaching when the message will come to us, as it comes to all—‘Arise, and go forth from the home in which thou hast dwelt, from the city in which thou hast done thy business, from thy family, from thy friends. Arise, and take thy last journey.’ And what know we of the journey? And what know we of the country to which we are bound?

The apostle John was privileged to look within the gates of heaven, and in describing what he saw, he begins by saying, ‘I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!’ This teaches us that the chief object of contemplation in the heavenly state is ‘the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.’ Nothing else attracted the apostle’s attention so much as the person of that Divine Being, who hath redeemed us by his blood.