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was secured effectually to the pillars to and by chapiters of silver with fillets and hooks also of silver. Exodus 38. 28 shows how this silver was collected and brought together.  That wall of spotless righteousness in Moses’ day shut man out from God who was within, and man, in order to approach to God, must needs go to the gateway and accomplish all that the Law commanded.  The gateway to the sinning Israelite meant life, through the death of the victim he brought to the priest Sit the entrance. Even so, our Lord Jesus said He was the Way to God the Father, and thus the Life. See John 14. 6.

The result of His life and testimony was to fulfil the prophecy of Isaiah 9 . 6-7.  For the judgment of a holy God was meted out upon Him that He might establish His Kingdom and uphold it with judgment and righteousness from henceforth, even for ever.  We now are the blessed participants of the righteousness of God our Saviour.  God the Father has manifested His righteousness upon earth through and in

His beloved and eternal Son by the display of His judgment against sin. See Isaiah 26. 9, and 1 Peter 2. 24.

" Lives of great men all remind us, We may make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time. "

As we look at the lives of the disciples, apostles, and a crowd (host) of witnesses, both before and since the Cross, and in our own lifetime, many great and noble men and women, it will be discovered that they have bowed the knee in recognition of Jesus Christ, who was manifested in the flesh.  The Christians of the past have faced the stern realities of life, dealing with each other on the basis of righteous-ness and justice. Where there is failure, the failure is not with God, it is not with the Lord Jesus, it is not because the Holy Spirit has not cautioned, wooed, pleaded with us, but any failure is with man himself.  Such a mighty flow of spiritual truth, teaching, doctrine, as

is contained in the Sacred Writings, can come only from God.  Our Saviour and Redeemer is the Mighty One of Jacob.  As new creatures in Christ we are exhorted to be a sweet savour of Christ unto God in them that are being saved, and in them that are perishing (2 Corinthians 2. 15).  " For hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow His steps "

(1 Peter 2. 21). The apostle Paul, probably the foremost witness of the risen and glorified Lord Jesus Christ, testified concerning the pathway of suffering, in Romans 8. 18.  Then let us remember the solemn words of Hebrews 2. 10, as we conclude for the moment, a

study so sublime, that we fain would take our shoes from off our feet, as we contemplate Him who was, and who is, and who ever shall be, God’s Righteousness.

T. C., J. F., T. W. F., S. R. C.