had become a stranger and a wanderer in the plains of Mamre, and then the Lord appeared unto him as a wayfaring man. It is in our most desperate sorrows that we have our happiest experiences. You must go to Patmos to see the revelation. It is only on the barren, storm-girt rock, shut out from all the world’s light, that we can find a fitting darkness, in which we can view the light of heaven undistracted by the shadows of earth. The Joy of Victory THE Christian’s battle-field is here, but the triumphal