Surely if there be a happy verse in the Bible, it is this—"My Beloved is mine, and I am his." So peaceful, so full of assurance, so overrunning with happiness and contentment is it, that it might well have been written by the same hand which penned the twenty-third Psalm. The verse savors of him who,

an hour before he went to Gethsemane, said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you." "In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." Let us ring the silver bell again, for its notes are exquisitely sweet: "My Beloved is mine, and I am his."

When a man, in order to fulfill a promise, has to disarrange all his affairs, and, so to speak, to stop all his machinery, it proves that he is but a man, and that his wisdom and power are limited; but he is God indeed who, without reversing the engine

of providence, or removing a single cog from the wheel of events, fulfills the desires of his people as they come up before him. The Lord is so omnipotent that he can work miracles without miracles, and change our state without changing his laws.