1 F. W. H. Myers, Saint Paul.
^ST. MARK 515
^ We remember that it was once given to a man to look through the opened heavens (through which Christ had " passed ") and to "see the Son of Man standing" — not sitting — "at the right hand of God." Why to the dying protomartyr was there granted that vision thus varied ? Wherefore was the attitude changed but to express the swiftness, the certainty of His help, and the eager readiness of the Lord, who starts to His feet, as it were, to succour and to sustain His dying servant ? And so we may take that great joyful truth that, both as receiving "gifts for men " and bestowing gifts upon them, and as working by His providence in the world, and on the wider scale for the well-being of His children and of the Church, the Christ who sits at the right hand of God wields, ever with eager cheerfulness, all the powers of omnipotence for our well-being, if we love and trust Him.i
And didst Thou love the race that loved not Thee, And didst Thou take to Heaven a human brow ?
Dost plead with man's voice by the marvellous sea ? Art Thou his kinsman now ?
O God, 0 Kinsman, loved, but not enough !
0 man, with eyes majestic after death, Whose feet have toiled along our pathways rough,
Whose lips drawn human breath !
By that one likeness which is ours and Thine, By that one nature which doth hold us kin.
By that high heaven where sinless Thou dost shine, To draw us sinners in.
By Thy last silence in the judgment-hall,
By long foreknowledge of the deadly tree. By darkness, by the wormwood and the gall,
1 pray Thee visit me.
Come, lest this heart should, cold and cast away, Die ere the guest adored she entertain —
Lest eyes which never saw Thine earthly day Should miss Thy heavenly reign.^
* A. Maclaren. ^ Jean Ingelow.
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