Sinal rocked with earthquake and burned with fire. None might touch it without incurring the death penalty. How much better our Christian heritage! Not a lonely mountain, but a city and commonwealth of holy souls. Not bands of worshipers gathered from the land of Canaan, but hosts of angels, the spirits of just men, and our blessed Lord himself. For the blood of animals, the blood of Jesus; for the Old Covenant, the New; for Abel’s death beside his altar, the Saviour’s death on the cross.

Notice the writer does not say that we shall, but that we are come, v. 22. Already, in our holiest moments,

.we are part of that great throng to which so many of our beloved have gone. Around us the most stable structures are being tested and some are crumbling te the ground. As they fall they show that their service

was transient. But as the scaffolding is taken down, the true building—the City of God—emerges.