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that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord how is it that thou will manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him," John, xiv. 21—23.—The lively hope of eternal life attends the way and paths of wisdom: “And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope un(illegible text) to the end,” Heb. vi. 11. “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls,” I Pet. i. 5—9.—Lastly, Wisdom’s ways are not only ways of pleasantness and peace in this