The holiness of God was taught in object lessons. The people must wash their garments, the mount must be fenced in, not a beast might graze upon the slopes, not a hand might touch the holy soil. Moses must twice descend to warn the people, vs. 14, 21, 25. Only he and Aaron might ascend. All was done to convince the people of the vast distance that intervened between themselves and God. It was the awe engendered by such provisions, and which pervaded the ancient dispensation, that led Peter to ery, when the divine glory of Jesus smote upon him: “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

Dare to believe that beneath every cloud of soulanguish, bereavement, and trial, you will find the burning love of God. Clouds and darkness may be round about him, but faithfulness and truth, judgment and mercy are at the foundation of his throne. Listen to the

voice that bids you enter the pavilion, and remember Heb. 12:18, etc.

is only shown in Jesus Christ, but what man should be. It combines in a concise form that moral code which is part of the nature of things, and is written on man’s conscience. See Rom. 2:5. Even the Fourth Commandment is deeply graven on our physical nature. These laws are mostly negative, but their positive side is stated in Matt. 5. For practical purposes this divine code consists of two divisions or tables; the first, of our duties toward God; the second, of those to man; but these are summed up in the one great law of love. See Mark 12: 29-31; Rom. 13: 8-10 and Gal. 5:14. Our Lord Jesus stands surety for us at the bar of Sinal. By his righteousness imputed and imparted, by his obedience and death, by the gracious indwelling of his Spirit, he comes “not to destroy, but to fulfill.’ See Matt. 5:17; Rom. 8: 4.