the self-denial and suflferings to which they must submit themselves, if they would be saved. They were now cheered by a glimpse of the " glory that should follow," and the reward which all faithful servants of their Master would one day receive. They had seen their Master's day of weakness. They now saw, for a few minutes, a pattern and specimen of His future power.
Let us take comfort in the thought, that there are good things laid up in store for all true Christians, which shall make ample amends for the afllictions of this present time. Now is the season for carrying the cross, ,and sharing in our Saviour's humiliation. The crown, the kingdom, the glory, are all yet to come. Christ and His people are now, like David in the cave of AduUam, despised, and lightly esteemed by the world. There seems no form nor comeliness in Him, or in His service. But the hour cometh, and will soon be here, when Christ shall take to Himself His great power and reign, and put down every enemy under His feet. And then the glory which was first seen for a few minutes, by three witnesses on the Mount of Transfiguration, shall be seen by all the world, and never hidden to all eternity.
In the second place, this passage shows us the safety of all true believers who have been removed from this world. We are told that when our Lord appeared in glory, Moses and Elijah were seen with Him, standing and speaking with Him. Moses had been dead nearly fifteen himdred years. Elijah had been taken up by a whirlwind from the earth more than nine hundred years before this time. Yet here these holy men were seen once more alive, and not only alive, but in glory !