There is one special fact connected with the Lord’s resurrection which we must not forget.  He never appeared to any but his own.  They, only, had eyes to see him.  Some may wonder why he did not go out into the streets of Jerusalem and there, to gaping crowds, show his risen form with the nail prints and the spear mark still fresh in his hands and his feet, and in his side.  In answer to this I have but little to say, more than that he was ever averse to casting pearls before swine or giving that which is holy unto dogs.  I will add this, however, that as none but spiritual eyes can see him now, so none but spiritual eyes could see him then.  This is what he meant by saying:  “Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me:  because I live, ye shall live also.”

And now, my dear Brethren, what have we learned by our meditation to-day?  If we have learned to know the Lord a little better, that we may draw nearer to him, we are edified, and our preaching and hearing have not been void.  In all our communings with him, Brethren, let us believe and love with all our hearts.  In our reasonings together let us know and feel that “he is nigh, even at hand.”  When we are in the way of duty, we love to feel that Jesus is with us, that he knows all we think, and sees all we do; but when out of the way, when walking in forbidden paths, how abashed and confused would we feel, if “Jesus himself were to draw near!” O brethren and sisters, let us so live, that every thought and word and act of our lives may be fit for his eye.  Lord, give us grace so to live.  Amen!

YEARLY MEETING OPENS

At the Linville’s Creek Church, Monday, May 15.

Brethren Henry Kurtz, John Garber, Umstead and Price spoke in exposition of the Word and doctrine in the forenoon meeting, which opened at 8 A.M.

Brother Price took the lead, and spoke from 1 Peter 1:12.  I will give a faithful report of his discourse as nearly exact as it can be made from the very brief outlines left by Brother Kline.  Had the thought ever entered Brother Kline’s mind that his Diary might at some future day be published in a regularly prepared form, I feel sure he would have left more extended entries on points of intense interest.

    TEXT.—­“Which things the angels desire to look into.”

Salvation is infinitely the most momentous subject that can engage the thoughts of men.  It embraces a knowledge of God on the one hand and a knowledge of man on the other.  It is a pleasing thought that as the knowledge of God is unfolded to the mind, a knowledge of man’s own sinful and lost condition flows in along with it; so that the very same light which enables him to perceive the love and goodness and truth and holiness of God imparts to him at the same time a view of his own sinful state.  He is led to see and feel in himself a spiritual condition which is the very opposite of that which he discovers in God his Creator, Preserver and bountiful Benefactor.