and small P Let us praise God for the privilege. Who are we that God should have made us to differ P Let us watch against unbeKef. The root of it often lies within us even after the tree is cut down. Let us guard our faith with a godly jealousy. It is the shield of the soul. It is the grace above all others which Satan labours to overthrow. Let us hold it fast. Blessed are they that believe !
We should observe, lastly, in these verses, how our Lord Jems Christ testifies to the truth of a resurrection, and a life to come. He speaks of the queen of the south, whose name and dwelling-place are now alike unknown to us. He says " she shall rise up in the judgment." He speaks of the men of Nineveh, a people who have passed away from the face of the earth. He says of ikem also, ''they shall rise up."
There is something very solemn and instructive in the language which our Lord here uses. It reminds us that this world is not all, and that the life which man lives in the body on earth is not the only life of which we ought to think. The kings and queens of olden time are all to live again one day, and to stand before the bar of God.^ The vast multitudes who once swarmed round the palaces of Nineveh are aU to come forth from their graves, and to give an account of their works. To our eyes they seem to have passed away for ever. We read with wonder of their empty haUs, and talk of them as a people who have completely .perished. Their dwelling places are a desola- tion. Their very bones are dust. But to the eye of God they all live still. The queen of the south and the men of Nineveh will all rise again. We shall yet see them face to face.