testimony. Then the Lord will descend in the air to call His own to be with Him. Thereupon that change which the poet has expressed will be true of all believers: “He and I in that bright glory One deep joy shall share: Mine to be forever with Him, His, that I am there.” The fourth verse is particularly interesting: “Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.” How did he know this? Had he been permitted to look into the books of eternity and there behold their names written before the foundation