will come if I do obey Jesus Christ?” and opens its glorified vision to see all the great things that are given to the soul that enters into the service of the perfect one, the perfect love, not until then the perfect love, the perfect life, come in.  A man may be—­I believe it with all my heart—­so absolutely wrapped up in the glory of obedience, and the higher life, and the service of Christ, that he never once asks himself, “What will come to me if I do not obey?” any more than your child asks you what you will do to him if he is not obedient.  Every impulse and desire of his life sets toward obedience.  And so the soul may have no theory of everlasting or of limited punishment, or of the other life.

Simply now, here, he must have that without which he cannot live, that without which there is no life.  Jesus the soul must have, the one yesterday, to-day, and forever; He that is and was and is to be.  Men dwell upon what He was, upon what He is; I rather think to-day of what He is to be.  And when I see these young men here before me looking to the future and not to the past,—­nay, looking to the future and not to the present, valuing the present only as it is the seed ground of the future, the foundation upon which the structure is to rise whose pinnacle shall some day pierce the sky,—­I want to tell them of the Jesus that shall be.  In fuller comprehension of Him, with deeper understanding of His life, with a more entire impression of what He is and of what He may be to the soul, so men shall understand Him in the days to be, and yet He shall be the same Christ still.  The future belongs to Jesus Christ, yes, the same Christ that I believe in and that I call upon you to believe in to-day, but a larger, fuller, more completely comprehended Christ, the Christ that is to be, the same Christ that was and suffered, the same Christ that is and helps, but the same Christ also who, being forever deeper and deeper and more deeply received into the souls of men, regenerates their institutions, changes their life, opens their capacities, surprises them with themselves, makes the world glorious and joyous every day, because it has become the new incarnation, the new presence of the divine life in the life of man.

Men are talking about the institutions in which you are engaged, my friends, about the business from which you have come here to worship for this little hour.  Men are questioning about what they care to do, what they can have to do with Christianity.  They are asking everywhere this question:  “Is it possible for a man to be engaged in the activities of our modern life and yet to be a Christian?  Is it possible for a man to be a broker, a shopkeeper, a lawyer, a mechanic, is it possible for a man to be engaged in a business of to-day, and yet love his God and his fellow-man as himself?” I do not know.  I do not know what transformations these dear businesses of yours have got to undergo before they shall be true and ideal homes for the child of