Why did the Holy Ghost take His place outside the temple? Because Jesus had gone up on high, and the promise of the Father was to be fulfilled to a people outside, whom He loved; and the Holy Ghost took up everything for them. And why has there been a revival at the present time? Is the house better than before, or is evil thickening and everything growing more dark? Infidelity on the one hand and superstition on the other, and what new phase of evil may come in next none can foresee; and how can any of us count on going through it all and being kept? Ah! because of that One who never wearies. That One who can never forsake the church of God. The One who came down to reveal the worthiness of Him with whom His people are linked, and they can count on Him to keep them, in spite of all the evil, looking for deliverance out of it, the Spirit and the bride saying " Come!" Is the bride for the earth? What has she to do with the wilderness, save as Rebecca, passing through it? What gives her her whole character? A certain position recognized, not by her but by Christ. Herself recognized by Him as that which without spot or wrinkle is to be presented to Himself. It will be a marvelous scene when Christ presents the church to Himself, when the last Adam takes that bride of His to share His glory. Ah! not only that; but it is oneness with Himself that characterizes us. What the heart feels to be so precious is the fact of our being looked at as belonging to Himself, and that the Father sees us not only in a relationship that links us up with the Son of His love in the glory, but such a relationship that He could not do without us. He, the Bridegroom, must have the bride up there. If you follow His course from the Babe in the manger to the death on the cross, and see Him now on the throne of God, the circumstances are very different, but ah! it is the same Lord Jesus; it is Himself, He Himself, who is the object of love, and we know that we are for His own self in the glory. That is the distinctive thing, that is where the heart rests.