And this settles the vexed question of ordination. It is good for a minister to lay his hand upon the head of another just called to the ministry, only it is not to communicate but to recognize author ity. It is with ordination as with friendship. A clasp of the hand is beautiful token for a friend to use, but it may be given. without the friendship, and on the other hand friendship may be proved without the handclasp. The affection of friendship and the influence of authority are gifts of the Almighty, and they belong to a man's secret and uncommunicable experience.
But I return to our main theme for the concluding thought. In this triad of Apostles that conversed on the roof top in Jerusalem each knew the Lord in his own way. R. L. Stevenson has toid of the evangelist he met in -the Cevennes who accosted him with
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