WHAT for, away up there where few could see it? Why be so very particular in hidden places? But this was God's house, everything must be perfect. God sees. He knows all the secret things. Our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit, or should be. Have we any hidden lily work to do? How much of it have we wrought?—Alas! not much. The fact is we are all more or less spotted and marred. We all have faults, we all know it, but we look thru a diminishing glass at our own faults and thru a magnifying glass at our neighbor's faults. Why should we do this when we know the precious truth of the Gospel so well? When is the church to be without "spot or wrinkle, or any such thing,"—holy, blameless? God help us, we are not ready.
O fellow pilgrims, hasten! Repentance first; then conversion; then for the lily work. We have a pattern—the "Rose of Sharon," the "Lily of the Valley." Let us keep our eyes fixed on Him, and all our doings subject to His approval. Let us grow like Him, or we who are delaying His coming, and the mighty conflict, will soon be shaken out. O, let us hasten while we may.