II. THE SERVICE OF BONG. After the service of rest, yon can enter on the service of song. And what is that song? "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus;" "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father• to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen;" "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, an<l blessing." These are some of the notes in that se:vice of song which they can sino- 0 who have entered on the service of rest. Reader, can you sing them? III. Next is THE SERVICE OF WAITING; for "They also serve who only stand and wait." Indeed, it is one of the highest services in which the redeemed soul can engage. What is this service of waiting? It is that spirit that waits upon God continually, in each day and each hour looking up and saying, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" It is renouncing our own will, our own way, our own inclination, our own pleasure, and as "the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God." The cloud may tarry long, but wait for it. Waiting time is not only never lost time, bnt it is most blessed discipline for the soul. " For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry" (Hab. ii. 3). Reader, are you waiting thus upon God? IV. Lastly, we have THE SERVICE OF WORK. Mark what is said of this: "Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God" (ver. 48). Yes, "all manner of service." There are all kinds of work in the great spiritual temple of God, and work for all. And this work may be of the very humblest kind. One day the disciples may be summoned to hold converse with Moses and Elias, and to behold their Saviour transfigured. What a privilege! some will say. A few days afterwards they are sent to unloose a colt and foal-to do what had all the appearance of an act of robbery I Yet it is the same Master who sends ou both errands. Some of the eminent ones of Israel, while passing through the wilderness with the tabernacle, had to spend whole years in taking care of pins, others in taking care of curtains, some of boards, and bars, and pillars, and sockets (Numb. iii.). Yet All was God's work. It was to the Lord they did it, not to man. Look not at the work, bnt at the Master. It is the Master that makes the meanest service grand and noble. " Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, au<l not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ." This makes the" cup of cold water" grand. Jesus! -this makes a tattered thouglit glorious. Jesus !-this ennobles every work, makes the meanest honourable, the smallest great. And the mightiest work that has not this motive is lighter than the small dust of the halo.nee. Reader, never forget tho Svirit's order of service: resting, praising, waiting, working.-W. •
Vcrs. 14, 16.-.A witness in a man's name. In the midst of a long list of names the compiler of this record stops, as if one name set him thinking. 'l'he name was ono with a significant meaning; yet it was one that seemed very strange wh~n t~ken in th~ light of the man's history. This name, Jehozadak, meant" Jehovah 1s righteous; but the man who bore it "went into captivity, when the Lord carried away Judah au<l Jerusalem." "It has been noted as remarkable that the heads of both the priestly and the royal stock carried to Babylon should have had names (Zedekiah nn<l Jehozadak) composed of the same elements, and assertive of the 'justice of God,' which their 8ulferings showed forth so signally." I. THE WITNESS OF A SIGNIFICANT NAME. This was a singular recurrence to the ways of nn older time, when children's names were given as embodying circumstances of birth, feelings of parents, etc., and when names were changed to express new relations of the life. In those earlier times names became elements of Divine revela- tions and agents of Divine witness and teaching. Ab-ra-ham taught men by his name, ~nd so did Is-ra-el. Other instances of revival of this witness by names may be found Ill the prophetic names given by the later prophets to their children, such as Immanuel, Shear-jashub, and Maher-shalal-hash-baz. It is interesting to add that, among tho i:lories of the future held out before the faithful, is this," And I will give him a new s. THE FIRST DOOK OF THE CliHONICLES. [cu. v1. 1-81,