THE great Jehovah is transcendently, ineffably holy. "Dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see," are not empty words; nor do they mean that the great God surrounds Himself arbitrarily with unapproachable splendor in order to impress His creatures with His greatness. Vain man does this; but behind the outward show there is the vain man still, whom the meanest, lowest, and basest may approach and even slay. But with God all this indescribable, unbearable radiance is but the natural forthshining of the glory of His character, awe-inspiring to all His creatures, terrifying only to the sinful and mortal. For it is the sinful and mortal only who can not see His face and dwell in His presence. For did not Jesus declare of the angels who minister to His little ones that in heaven they "do always behold the face of My Father who is in heaven"? Matt. 18:10. And is it not also promised that beyond the centuries and travail of sin, the servants of God "shall see His face"? Rev. 22:4. Yea, in His "presence is fulness of joy;" "at His right hand are pleasures forevermore." Ps. 16:11. And all that fulness of joy and eternal pleasures lie at the end of "the path of life." It is sin which can not exist in God's presence, and mortal man has been possessed of sin or contaminated and affected by sin thru all the ages. Therefore he can not approach the ineffable glory of God. Therefore he can not, with mortal gaze, pierce the insufferable glory which surrounds the divine presence. In the light of the insufferable splendor, of perfect, infinite righteousness, he can not exist. Therefore, and it was spoken even to Moses, "the man of God," "Thou canst not see My face; for man shall not see Me and live." Ex. 33:20. Because of this, God in mercy veils His transcendent glory to mortal man. Therefore He comes in clouds, upon which, in the subdued radiance of hope, glows the rainbow of promise. Therefore, too, when He sends His messages of love and mercy to sinful man, He sends them by men, lest He terrify those whom He would save by love. Therefore, also, when the Eternal Logos came to this world to demonstrate the everlasting love of God, He came clothed in the flesh, man among men. But in all these manifestations of God, the glory is there, hidden tho it be; and it is there also to destroy sin. But it will not enter the heart of the human without his consent. The power over sin is not potentially in the sinner. He is sin's slave, often sin's willing slave. But the power over sin is potentially in God's word, in "every word" of God's messages to men. We may reckon that word powerless, even as the Jews reckoned Jesus, a mere man, a sinner, a devotee of Beelzebub. Even so will we turn His abundant blessing into curses. Or we may take His Gospel message as the power of God unto salvation, even as Peter accepted Jesus as "the Christ, the Son of the living God." Even so will God's presence, potent with the ineffable glory of His righteousness, come into our hearts and banish sin. Witness the poor leper, the very personification of sin, bow before Jesus, saying, "Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean." Listen to the reply to the ears of faith, throbbing with the living power of God, "I will; be thou clean." Behold the marvelous results; the corrupt mass changes to the health and beauty of the little child. Even so He cleanses hearts. Listen to His words to His disciples: "Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you." John 15:3. Sinner, let God's presence come into your heart in the omnipotent word. It will cleanse away the sin, and enthrone Christ as Lord of all. Having Him as the Indweller in your heart, you will welcome Him when He comes in all the glory of God: "Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us." Then will the word which has made you an incorruptible, deathless character give you an incorruptible, deathless body forever. "The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof." Long has He waited to come unto it again in the forthshining of His wonderful glory. He is waiting, pleading, for men so to yield to Him that they can bear His presence in His own glory. Sometime every decision of the human will have been made, and Deity will, in undimmed brightness, come into His own possessions—His by creation and redemption. That coming, that revealing of His presence, will be the eternal test of all character. His own, those in whom He dwells by faith, those who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is His law, will be changed from glory to glory, transmitted into immortals of God. Those who do not, would not, know Him, who have identified themselves with sin, will perish in the unsurpassable splendor, be destroyed by the forthshining of His presence. Sinner, turn to Him now, and partake of His glory. Lay all human pride and exaltation in the dust, and let Him come in as your all in all. Child of God, be not cast down. Press on. Let the cleansing word day by day do its revealing, cleansing work. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure." "The pure in heart . . . shall see God."