In connection with position, getting onto the ground, etc., it seems the truth must have a kind of cumulative effect. It is usually after many presentations that results come in this way. "Ye seek Jesus" (not as Savior, but as Center) describes a state of soul rarely met with in these days, such is the confusion of Christendom, such is our indifference to His presence "in the midst." "There shall they see Me." is His response to this desire. Those who have gone, how sweetly true they have found it. Conforming to Jesus' appointment "they saw Him," and "they worshiped Him." Then they received that soul-sustaining word that, notwithstanding the difficulties and the darkness that would ensue, they should have Him "in the midst" — how long? Even unto the end of the age.
Nothing can lose to us this unspeakable privilege. It holds good "to the end," for those who answer to His
searching, before the Lord, how far are we up to this privilege in the state dour souls: how far have we the subduing sense of His presence, so that we can say as worshipers, as those on the inside with deep and
solemn joy —"Surely the Lord is in this place." Those to whom "the meeting is dry," and "disappointing,"
belong to the class of whom it is said "some doubted." May the Lord maintain in us a vigorous faith, and the ravishing sense of His presence. Does this not antedate heaven, which that blessed One is pleased to define as, "Where l am." F.C. Blount