rejoice in our attainments we shall fall into grievous error and sorrow. If we rejoice even

in the increased light shed upon the Word we must remember the One Who alone is to be

praised for the opened eye to see. Let our rejoicing be "in the Lord," then it will be real

and full.

Are we joyful enough? We seek grace to manifest the fact that we are fellow-

members of the One Body, we seek grace to exhibit all lowliness and meekness, to walk

worthy of the calling, but let us not forget "joy." We may in times past have been misled

into believing that a solemn face, a funereal air, a joyless, sunless, rigid demeanour,

glorified the Lord. Thanks be to God for deliverance from such things. Let us be glad

and rejoice in the Lord. The faith which is ours to hold is full enough to fill us all to the

brim with "joy unspeakable."  We need not be trivial, frivolous, or emotional to

experience and shed abroad something of the radiance that should be evident in those

who "rejoice in the Lord alway," and who have received the truth in the love of it, and the

faith in some measure of its joy.

Moses "wist not that his face shone," but it was evident he had been with the Lord.

So, in like manner, may it be ours to reflect something of the radiance of the "joy of