“Ada’s” contribution has come to hand. We have always regarded “the crown of life” (James 1:12) as a future thing. The time of trial cannot be considered as over, so long as we are down here. In one sense, we are “seated in the heavenlies” (Eph. 2); but, in another sense, we are in the place of trial and conflict on the earth. The expression “tried,” in James 1:12, has nothing to do with “judgment,” as our correspondent seems to think. We believe it refers simply to the trial one has to endure while passing through the wilderness, and going onward to our heavenly rest, where “the crown of life” awaits us. The believer can never come into “judgment,” as regards his person, because Christ was judged in his stead. (See John 5:24, where the word is “judgment,” and not “condemnation.”) His works will be judged, but not himself. (See 1 Cor. 3:13; 2 Cor. 5:10.) If we were to be judged, we should assuredly be condemned and lost forever. “Enter not into judgment with Thy servant, O Lord; for in Thy sight shall no flesh living be justified.”