THE LATE REV. ARTHUR TRIGGS. - The Gospel Magazine

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Christ with us for ever. Jesus, Lord and Master, give our hearts more
frequently to burn within us as Thou dost walk and talk and commune
with us by the way, and show us, as it is Thy heart's delight to do,
the glories that shall follow, that we may oftener and more clearly
reflect thine image as we exclaim, "Lord, it is good for us too be here."
Thus while Jesus holds communion with us we sing, in the gifted
language of Mra. M. A. Chaplin:-
.. Drink deeply, 0 Eeloved,
And if Thou lov'st our praise,
Create more oft the sweetness
Of our communing days;
Life has no joy without Thee,
And-mystery Divine! -
The bliss that thrills our heart-strings,
:Makes melody in Thine."
R.
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"WHERE HAST THOU GLEANED TO-DAY 1"
(JOB xxviii.)
" SURELY there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they
fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the
stone." Job continues his parahle, showing what wealth is hidden in
the earth, wealth of precious and useful metals mingled with the dust
and clay of its crust. Men spend their lives taking the ore and separating
it from the dross. Oh that half the eagerness were displayed in
the pursuit of hidden wisdom! As the creative hand of God~hid
these treasures in the bowels of the earth, so also has He His hidden
ones of priceless worth, which His ministers are to seek in this naughty
world, taking the precious from the vile, discriminating between the
salt of the earth and that which corrupts, the pure metal from the
dross. "Surely "-we are by this word directed to look for a deeper
lesson in this parable-" surely there is a vein for the silver." Silver
is associated with atonement; the ransom price for every man's soul,
poor and rich alike, was the half shekel of silver, and we have little
mention of silver earlier, except Abraham's purchase of a grave for
Sarah: the resurrection-hope of the patriarch. Just as silver is found
in veins in the earth, so the blood of atonement is found in Immanuel's
veins, and poured forth from thence to enrich " the ransomed of the
Lord." As men in search of silver follow the vein in the mine, so
digging in the Mine of Truth, the Scriptures, we find this vein running
through from beginning to end. It is witnessed to in Abel's sacrifice,
the lamb slain and its blood poured forth. It became the foundation
of acceptable worship in the silver sockets made from atonement
money. " Forasmuch as we are not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb
without blemi!!h and without spot." Pure and white though silver may
be, the blood that flowed from the Ll10mb of God is far more precious,