for you that I go away.” We probably do not yet fully grasp all that is comprised in this word, expedient. At first they scarcely understood it at all. I think that now it began to dawn on them that it was all a part of God’s glorious scheme for their and the world’s good; that Jesus’ presence, in the manner in which He had been associating with them was no longer essential to the earthly measure of their happiness, or the fullest possible measure of success in the work He had given them to do. Indeed,