been, as St. Paul says, " but the shadow and the figure of future things," it was bound to disappear on the coming of the reality. Its end was foretold by Jeremias saying: "Behold, the days shall come, saith the Lord, when I shall make a new covenant with the house of Israel." But if this new covenant, this Church of Christ, must in turn cease, she, too, must be a figure of some future dispensation. Not so, however, for the prophet adds: " And this shall be the covenant I shall make with the house of Israel, I will give My law in their bowels, and write it in their hearts." The last heart-beat, then, of the last human being, shall be the signal for the Church's dissolution and resurrection. When the Church falls, then falls the human race and with it the world, for, concludes the prophet: " If these ordinances fail before Me, then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before Me forever." The Church is no figure, but a perfect reality. Says St. Paul: " The old priesthood indeed was set aside, because it brought nothing to perfection, but the new, being according to the order of Melchisedech, must last forever." Justly, therefore, does the Apostle conclude that: " Christ, for that He is eternal, hath an everlasting priesthood whereby He is able to save forever them that come to God by Him."
Brethren, that which the prophetic spirit foreshadowed in the Old Law, the positive will of Christ confirmed in the New. He represents His Church as a field of cockle and good wheat, not to be separated till the great harvest-time — the end of the world; as
