child she remembers the anguish no more, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye, therefore, now indeed have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

"And in that day you shall ask me nothing. I most assuredly say to you, Whatever you shall ask the Father in my name, He shall give it to you. Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be made full. These things have I spoken to you in proverbs: the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in proverbs, but I shall tell you plainly concerning the Father. In that day you shall ask in my name; and I do not say to you that I will pray the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again I leave the world and go to the Father."

Some one of his disciples said to him: "Now you are speaking in frankness, and not speaking a proverb. Now we know that you know all things, and have no need that any

Disciples express

one should ask you. By this we believe that you belief. came forth from God." Jesus answered: "Do you now believe? Behold, the hour is coming, and the hour has come, that you shall be scattered, every one to his own, and shall leave me alone. And I am not alone, because the Father is with mc. These things have I spoken to you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you have anguish; but be courageous, I have conquered the world!"

Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and prayed audibly, while the disciples must have listened in perplexity and awe. And this is the prayer as John records it :—

"O Father, the hour has come.

Glorify Thy Son that Thy Son may glorify

Thee. As Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give perpetual life to every one whom Thou hast given him. And The Prayer of Jesus. this is the perpetual life, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. I have glorified Thee on the earth. I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.

"And now glorify Thou me, O Father, with Thyself by the glory which I had with Thee before the world was. I have shown Thy name to the men whom Thou gavest me out of the world. They werc Thine, and Thou gavest them to me. And they have kept Thy word. Now they know that all things, whatever Thou hast given me, are from Thee, for I have given them the words Thou gavest me, and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from Thee; and they have believed that Thou didst send me. I pray for them. For the world I pray not, but for those whom Thou hast given me; for they are thine. And Thou hast given them to me, and I am glorified in

them. And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I am coming to Thee.

“O Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given me, that they may be one as we. When I was with them I kept them in Thy name and guarded them, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. And now I am coming to Thee, and these things I am speaking in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Thy word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not pray that Thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that Thou wouldst keep them from evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Make them holy in the truth: Thy word is truth. As Thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world, and for their sakes I make myself holy that they also may be made holy in the truth.

"But not for these alone do I pray, but for those also who believe on me through their word, that they all may be one, even as Thou art in me and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that Thou has sent me. And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, even as we: I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved me.

"O Father, that which Thou hast given me I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory, which Thou hast given me; for Thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

"O righteous Father, the world also has not known Thee, but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me. Thy name I both have made known to them, and will make it known, that the love wherewith Thou hast loved them may be in them, and I in them!"

The Kedron valley.

Section 3.-Gethsemane.

Perhaps at the close of this prayer they sang another portion of the Great Hallel. Then they went to the Mount of Olives, crossing the brook Kedron, the name signifying "Muddy Brook." It was probably through what is called St. Stephen's Gate that Jesus and his band passed down and crossed the Kedron, which runs about 200 feet from the city walls. On the slope of the Mount of Olives, which rises herefrom, and near the road leading on to Bethany, was the Garden of Gethsemane, meaning an "oil-press,"-the garden having derived its name most probably from an oil-press which belonged to the estate. Whether we now know the precise spot where Jesus was in agony, and where he was betrayed, is

Somewhat uncertain; but it is quite certain that it could not have been far from the plot which the Latin Church has recently bought and enclosed. We cannot say that the eight venerable trees, which are so impressive to all travellers, were standing in the days of Jesus. It is probable that they were not, as Josephus informs us that Titus cut down all the trees round about Jerusalem (B. J., vi. 1, 1), and that the Tenth Legion were posted about

the Mount of Olives (v. 2, 3, and vi. 2, 8). But these trees must. have been planted very early by the hands of those who, cherishing the memory of Jesus, desired to mark the traditionary spot. Dr. Thomson is inclined to place the garden in the secluded vale several hundred yards to the north-east of the present Gethsemane. In any case it was near the city, and Judas and the other disciples knew that Jesus was accustomed to frequent it for private devotion.