None other Lamb, none other Name,
None other Hope in heaven or earth or sea, None other Hiding-place from guilt and shame. None beside Thee.
My faith burns low, my hope burns low. Only my heart's desire cries out in me By the deep thunder of its want and woe. Cries out to Thee.
Lord, Thou art Life tho' I be dead.
Love's Fire Thou art however cold I be : Nor heaven have I, nor place to lay my head. Nor home, but Thee.^
' Christina G. Rossetti.
512 PURSUIT AND PERMANENCE
4. "For ever" — literally, "throughout the length of days": what a wonderful phrase ! To one who knows God to be the Shepherd of his life, the valley of the deep shadow will only lead from the green pastures and the quiet waters of earth to the pastures more green and the waters more quiet of heaven. For this Jesus of ours has Himself been through the valley of the deepest shadow, and He came out on the other side, and said : " Peace be unto you ! " Shall we not then take heart, as we yield our- selves to the guidance of our Shepherd, who is good and wise and strong, to whom belong the pastures on this side of death and the pastures on that ? And so throughout the length of days we shall praise Him — all our days in the world that now is, and then in the world everlasting.
^ Jesus utilizes the great parable of the Family for the last time ; and as He had invested Fatherhood and Sonhood with their highest meaning so He now spiritualizes Home. What Mary's cottage at Bethany had been to the little company during the Holy Week, with its quiet rest after the daily turmoil of Jerusalem ; what some humble house on the shore of Galilee was to St. John, with its associations of Salome ; what the great Temple was to the pious Jews, with its Presence of the Eternal, that on the higher scale was Heaven. Jesus availed Himself of a wealth of tender recollections and placed Heaven in the heart of humanity when He said, " My Father's House." ^ ^ John Watson, The Mind of the Master.
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