How often we have that sort of prayer repeated in Scripture: "Save me,' " "receive me," "visit me," "remember me," "keep me," "hold me," "bless me,' ""draw me."

"We will run after thee." This is another evidence, hat this book is not an earthly love song, for when a man loves, he wants no other companion to the object of his affections.

First, Christ draws to himself, and then after himself.
To himself singly, and after himself with others.
"Me," a lowly individual.

We," a noble indissoluble unity.

"We will run," not I only, but others with me. The pastor and his flock. The father and his family. The bride and her companions.

See the boldness of the promise, "We will," but it is founded on HIS drawing.

See the greatness of the promise, "RUN," though we find it hard sometimes to crawl, and it is always so when we go in our own strength" (Isa. xl. 31, Psa. cxix. 32).

See the humility of a promise, "after thee," not beside, before, without thee, but "after thee."

See the object of the promise, "THEE," Lord, only thee; not after my own notions or theories, but Jesus only, Jesus wholly!

“We will run,” cheerfully, readily, willingly, earnestly, eagerly, with haste, perseverance, and delight, in the path in which he leads. Not more willingly or gratefully did the manslayer run to the city of refuge.

"We will run after thee," our Forerunner. He goes first to see where the dangers are, in order to deliver us,

and where the difficulties and conflicts are to be our Protector. He who draws us always goes before us. And "we will run after thee," as our Pattern in suffering, obedience, faith, resurrection, and glory; and as our Portion, and "that we may know him, and that we may win Christ." "My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God."

Brethren, take heed here. We often speak words tried by the Holy Ghost, as in a furnace seven times, without ourselves having tried them even once.

The King hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee; we will remember thy love more than wine; the upright love thee”—SONG i. 4.

We have had the prayer, "Draw me," with cords of love, nearer, nearer. Now we have the answer, abundant, immediate. "The King hath brought me into his chambers," &c. It is the language of amazed triumph and of exulting joy, worship and delight. Oh! that we might ever dwell under his shadow, and always feel the touch of Jesus!

The prayer of the heart should be, "Draw me." May there be no need to drive me. "Draw me, and we will

run after thee," not only individually, but with others. When we learn to know him, we are not content to know him alone. "We will run after thee."

Now see the answer. For he always answers prayer like this abundantly, if not immediately. "The King hath brought me," it was "him" before; "thy love"; "thy name." "The virgins love thee" before, but now when she gets a new and fuller view of him, it is "the King." Oh! how Christ becomes exalted in the soul when it gets experience of his glory. "The King"! the King of grace, the King of love, the King of glory, and "he hath brought me into his chambers." The Hebrew here is very precious, "he hath caused me to come in."

The King, by sovereign right, and authority, and power, causes us to come in, by his drawings, his revelations of himself, the whispers of his love, and often by pressure from without.

"The King hath caused me," little me, unworthy me, even me to come, and not only into his kingdom, but "into his chambers," into the closest and most sacred intercourse with himself, where only special favourites are allowed to come. He hath made me personally near, and given me sensible enjoyment in himself, and brought me into confidential communion with himself.

"WE will be glad and rejoice in thee." We the children must come, the wives must come, the husbands must come, they that know him not must come. "We will be glad and rejoice in thee"; not in the chambers and the comforts though they are many, not in the feast though it is divine, but in the giver.

The bride eyes not her garment,
But her dear bridegroom's face.
I will not gaze on glory,

But on my King of grace.
Not on the crown he giveth,

But on his pierced hand;
The Lamb is all the glory

In Immanuel's land!

"We will remember thy love more than wine," wine is put here for all earthly enjoyments! "The upright love thee," we get into good company when we come to love Christ; the white-robed multitude, the Father's family, none but the upright love him. And who are the upright? Those who know their need, sincere at heart, they desire Christ, they confess their own sinfulness, condemn themselves, justify God, receive Christ, and set to their seal that God is true, like Nathanael "thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel."

In all the course of my long ministry, I have never known a double-minded person converted. I do not say the Lord cannot do it, but I have never known one. There is no singleness of eye, no uprightness about them.

"The King hath caused me to come into his chambers." See how she recognises his sovereignty. He hath a right to the chambers. Psa. xlv. 14, "She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework," and in the Song of Solomon ii. 4, "He brought me to the banqueting house." The King, he who hath the heart, the power, and the right to do it, takes us in by the same gate he entered by. Then see Psa. xci., which is a comment upon all this, there we have the soul "dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, and abiding under the

shadow of the Almighty," and also in verses 14-16, "Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I

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deliver him I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him."

Here are the chambers. Has the King brought my reader into them? Oh! ask him to do so. "Draw me," and it shall be "into his chambers," chamber after chamber (John xiv. 2), court after court. There is allusion here to the chambers of the earthly temple, which was the figure of the true. In the outer court was the altar of burnt offering and the laver. Then there was the holy place where the incense ascended. And then the inner sanctuary, the most holy place, where was the mercy seat. There are times when the Lord's people have such visions still. God causes his light to shine in and shows them the King, and the home he is preparing for them. Our prayer should be "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles" (Psa. xliii. 3). In Eph. ii. 6, 13, 18 we are taught further of these chambers! Only think of it! A pilgrim on earth, yet dwelling in the chambers of the King-chambers of distinction, of defence, of devotion. "When thou prayest, enter into thy chamber." Chambers of comfort, where the soul shall lodge at ease (Psa. xxv. 13, 14). Chambersof delight (Psa. xxvii. 4-6). Chambers of security. "Come, my people, enter into thy chambers" (Isa. xxvi. 20). "His chambers," thy chambers, chambers of rest, at