Shall we turn in our Bibles to the Song of Solomon, please, chapter five, and continue the meditation upon the beauty of the beloved Son of God. It is one of the greatest joys in looking into the word of God to realize the importance of those words that Paul the Apostle wrote, when in second Corinthians chapter three and verse eighteen, Paul stated, beholding as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, we are changed, we are transformed, we are transferred into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. We rejoice that in the pages of the Word of God, the greatest subject and the greatest glory that we can behold is the glory of our wonderful and blessed Lord. And in the Song of Solomon, chapter five, beginning at verse nine, and reading through verse sixteen, we have by the Spirit given wonderful words of description that come from a raptured heart and a spiritual heart, knowing the Lord Jesus. The words may be given in symbolic language, but they have precious, divine and eternal truth. We shall read this section, beginning at verse nine, to the end. What is thy beloved more than another beloved? O thou fairest among women, what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? My beloved is white and ruddy, the cheapest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold. His love are bushy and black as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters washed with milk and thinly set. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers. His lips like lilies, dropping sweet, smelling myrrh. His hands are as long rings set with the bird. His belly or body is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon pockets of fine gold. His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet, yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters, of Jerusalem. May I repeat the statement, it is the loveliness and it is the beauty of the Lord Jesus that metaphorically is described for us by the Spirit and the language of every true spiritual heart who knows the Lord Jesus. We quoted a verse at the commencement of our study from Matthew Where the Lord Jesus said, All things are delivered unto me of my Father. And no man knoweth the Son but the Father. And no man neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son. And he to whom the Son will reveal him. I say this very firmly as well as solemnly. There is no one who knows the Son of God completely as the Father. One well wrote many years ago, words that I've appreciated, there is that pertaining to the life and to the death of the Son of God, which only the Father is able to comprehend. All that we may do is to take our shoes from off our feet with adoring wonder, making no attempt to define what is impenetrable and what is indefinable to human creature minds. And we repeat the truth, no man knoweth the Son but the Father. But our blessing is that in some measure we who have come to know the Son can thus learn to know more of him, and the language of our hearts can be in the words of Paul as he wrote in Philippians three ten, O that I may know him, to recognize there are depths and heights and lengths and breadth of revelation concerning the excellencies and the virtues of God's beloved Son. One of the most amazing facts is that God takes in the language of human terminology, He takes descriptions and places them by the Spirit in human language for you and for me to be able to obtain from it some of the glories and excellencies of His Son that we might grow in the knowledge of our Savior. Today I would like you to meditate with me on verses eleven and twelve, that we might consider the description of his head, the description of his locks, and the description of his eyes. Now it is all metaphorical language, but behind these words of description there are eternal and precious truth concerning the person of our beloved. For he is the one whom the world would challenge you and me. What is thy beloved more than any beloved? And thus may it be the answer of our raptured hearts to describe his beauty. Now you know the expression as we read in verse eleven of his head. She declares the beauty of his head. His head is as the most fine gold. May I state as you go through the description, you will find that the symbolical descriptions, they alternate between his deity and his humanity. There are symbolic descriptions that refer to the deity of our Lord Jesus, and there are others that refer to his humanity. We thank God We see in them his perfect deity, his essential deity, and we see in them also his perfect humanity. Now in relation to his head, which is of the most fine gold, I'm sure it is the consensus and the undivided opinion of true scholars of the Word of God, that this is the emblem of his Godhead. She presents the glory of his Godhead as being the most fine gold. For this is the emblem of deity. That which is superior in the person of Christ, the glory of his Godhead. May I dwell for just a moment on the words of Paul? As he wrote concerning the glory of his Godhead, And you find the words in Colossians chapter one and verse nineteen. For in him all the fullness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell. Oh, may I repeat it? All the fullness in him, all the fullness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell. And the bright conviction of the beauty of his head is to acknowledge the glory of his Godhead and the place of that fullness in the Godhead in which the Godhead was pleased to dwell. This was the priceless value she placed upon the glory of his head, the most fine gold. I believe you will agree with me from the beginning to the end of Holy Scripture. You will agree that when we read of the most fine gold, whether in type and shadow or in reality, it is the emblem of divine glory. And the head of gold, as she describes his loveliness, is the emblem of his divine glory. The greatness of it. The infinite greatness of it. For that glory of head, and in the glory of his deity, indicates he possesses divine power. Oh, the greatness and the golden character of that divine power belonging to him. It is not only golden greatness in power, but even in wisdom. Oh, the divine wisdom. that there is in that blessed one as in no other. The divine righteousness as we recognize the symbol of gold declaring the righteousness of that blessed person. And the symbol of divine love for its golden love that is ours to find in him. Not only divine love, divine holiness. May I dwell for a moment with you, digressing perhaps for a moment, to think of the great temple of Solomon when it was built. And the inward glory of that temple, and the inward glory of that holiest of all, and the temple within that was lined with gold, the symbol of divine holiness as being the temple of the dwelling place of the Shekinah globe. and to recognize all that was with him. With it gold symbolized the divine holiness of the character of the Holy God. And divine holiness is found in the glory of him, as she describes his head, golden Godhead. Then he contrasts for just a minute by way of comparison. Think with me of what Daniel said of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel two. as Nebuchadnezzar had that great image brought before him in his vision. And the head was of gold. Thou art that head of gold, said Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar. Think with me of chapter three in the book of Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold and set it up upon the plain to be thus worshipped by all the nations gathered together. But they fade into insignificance. Nebuchadnezzar's head of gold, that every image of gold that he built fades away in contrast to the eternal character of the divine gold that is in the bridegroom and the object of the bride's affection. This is the bride's valuation of him. And then in contrast to her valuation of him, Think also of the world's valuation of him. They valued me at thirty pieces of silver, as the prophet Zechariah wrote, and which actually was fulfilled ere they crucified him. But the bride valued him as a head of gold. Now when you and I came to the Lord Jesus, and we rejoiced to remember the moment we came to Christ. We came to him in all the poverty of our sins. We came to him in all the abject condition that was ours mortally and spiritually and in the darkness of spiritual death. And in all the poverty that we came, and then as a poor guilty, how deserving sinner, bankrupt and poverty-stricken, we receive him as our blessed Savior and Lord. And we exchange the poverty to obtain the head of gold. Blessed be his day. How rich we are when we realize the valuation of that blessed head of gold which is ours. But notice She not only describes this head as being of gold, but she goes on to speak of his locks. His locks are bushy, the first mention of his locks. His locks are bushy. And as she describes him, she recognizes the indication that the uncovered head suggests to her, for the uncovered head with bushy locks is the emblem of his humanity. And as a man, she recognizes the emblem of his locks as perfect humanity with an uncovered head that denotes dominion. For this is the emblem of his dominion. It is linked to his headship. It is linked to the glory of his headship. He has dominion. And by the uncommon luck, his dominion is indicated to us. Beloved, think of the dominion. Think of the headship of the Lord Jesus Christ with me for just a moment. We read in the Apostle Paul's writings in Ephesians one, twenty-three, that he has been made head over all things to the church, which is his body. May I mention briefly some of the ecclesiastical glory that belongs to the Lord Jesus as being head of the church, which is his body. And in passing May I remark that how needful it is today that we realize he still is the head of his church. In Ephesians chapter four, let me briefly suggest, in Ephesians chapter four, as the winged head in dominion over the church, he gives gifts unto men, and we have read. in the Ephesian Epistle chapter four that he gave gifts. He gave some apostles, he gave some prophets, he gave some evangelists, he gave some pastors or shepherds, and he gave some teachers. And as being in dominion the head of the church, head over all things of that church, it is his divine prerogative to bestow those gifts. The apostolic gifts of the early church have been given, their work has been accomplished, and they've laid the foundation that needs never to be repeated. The gift of the apostolic prophets has also been ministered until the completion of the precious Word of God, and their gifts have disappeared. But the remaining gifts, the evangelists, the shepherds or the pastors, and the teachers, They are his gifts unto the church. And do me I bring before your heart and mind this fact. There are two things involved in the ministry of him as the head of the church. One is a ministry of expansion. The other is a ministry of edification. The church is to grow numerically. but the church is to grow not only numerically but internally. And the two directions of growth are provided from the head by the gift of the evangelist, the man who goes out to win precious souls and brings them to the Savior. And then those souls are to be ministered to for edification by the care of the shepherd and the teaching of the teacher, and to recognize his dominion, ecclesiastically, over the bride, how blessed it is to acknowledge. And may I say once again, the headship of the Lord Jesus we need to acknowledge more than we do in practical dependence. But it's not only the ecclesiastical head of the church, but if I may also remind you of its creotorial headship. For the head of every man, according to the writing of First Corinthians, the head of every man is Christ. We see its creotorial headship over the human race. for recognize he is now, particularly the head of a new creation. Adam the first failed, the head of the federal race by nature. He signally failed. This man is now the head of a new creation. If any man be in Christ, new creation. All things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. And Christ is the head of a new creation. And oh thank God, he who is the head of the new creation will never fail and can never fail. And he will bring the glory of that new creation to its eternal fruition. And that brings me to the third point about his headship. And that will be in a coming day when in universal glory the headship of Christ will be manifested throughout God's universe. Let me quote the words of Paul in Philippians two. Chapter two, reading perhaps from verse nine through eleven. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him and given him a name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, of things on earth, of things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Beloved, it's not only a joy to see that man in the glory head over all things of the church, to acknowledge he's the head of a new creation, but to acknowledge to someday that same blessed man The bridegroom of the church will be the universal acknowledged head in dominion over the universe at large. The celestial realm, the terrestrial realm, the eternal region will acknowledge his dominion. His locks are bushy. And the dominion of his headship will someday be universally acknowledged. Blessed be his name. But then you know, as she speaks of his locks as being the emblem of his dominion, not the particular reference that it is bushy locks to which he refers. Bushy, thus bringing before us the emblem of noble manhood I don't know how many of you remember, I remember in my younger days, when physical culture seemed to be a development of themes amongst many, that there was one man particularly who was an ardent follower of this physical culture theory and proposed it, and was a proponent of its message and of its practice, and one of the emblems of his own physical vigor was the fact that he had gushy hair, and which was the result of his physical condition, and fitting of the emblem of his manhood. Well, beloved, may I say there has never been a perfect emblem of noble manhood except in the person of Jesus Christ. the nobility of his manhood in the perfection of his humanity. May I give you some suggestions? Never a more noble, solid character has existed in perfect humanity as in the life of the Lord Jesus when he was on the earth. Note, for instance, that in the nobility of his human character, no one remembers the generosity of that blessed man. Though he was poor, Yet in his generosity, he was able to feed five thousand men beside women and children and give them to him. In his generosity, he provided the wine in Cana of Galilee when they ran out. In his generosity, he was watching the gifts being placed in the temple, as you read in Luke twenty-one. And he watched the Pharisees and all put in their gifts, and he saw the widow come with her two minds. And in the generosity of his character, he acknowledged she had given more than they are. None as generous as he. Not only his generosity, but his human frankness. For that blessed one was indeed frank. In Luke chapter seven, the woman came into the house of Simon the Pharisee, And she followed the feet of that blessed one, who in grace had met her need, and washed his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. And Simon in his heart thought, if this man knew what sort of a woman she is, he would permit that. The Lord Jesus knew his thoughts. And in fact now, Simon, he said, I've got something to say to you. And he said it. Yes, even in his fearlessness as men. In John seven he could fearlessly accuse the Jews. Why do you go about to kill me? He knew they were seeking to kill him. They said to him one day, Lord, I really seeking to kill you. He said, you go and tell that old fox. He was not afraid of his enemy. Oh, beloved, you look for whatever is noble in manhood, and you find it in him. Even in his carefulness. Oh, how we could, if we would, emulate the pattern that is before us in the humanity of the Lord Jesus. His carefulness. One came to him one day and said, Lord, I want you to decide between me and my brother who should have the inheritance. The Lord said, that's none of my business. I'm not to be the judge over you. And he kept his nose out of the family affairs. He was careful. My, I wish I were more like him. But this is the pattern. and the joy of seeing it. And then the nobility of his sacrificial spirit. Oh, that we had more of it. His sacrificial spirit, regardless of his personal comfort, they wake him early in the morning, master, all men are seeking thee. Regardless of his hunger, he met the need of the soul of the woman at the well. Regardless of his thirst, He was always doing things for the blessing of others, and counting what good he did, in sacrificial love, that was his meat, and that was his drink. All that was manly and noble. Name inequality of human nobility. You find it in him. But he's not something else concerning his life. They're not only bushing. But she says they're black, black as a raven. Oh, what a picture. This was the evidence of his eternal youth. Everlasting youth was his. I don't see many black hairs around here. I see some other kind. But when she looks at the beauty of her beloved, His youthfulness had never faded. He possessed everlasting youth. Perpetual. Have you ever wondered, he began his ministry at the age of thirty years? And three and a half years of the most, it continued to the end. And he could, cry as he did prophetically, the words of the psalmist, as you have them, in Psalm chapter one hundred and ten. He could cry, a hundred and two robbers, Psalm a hundred and two, he cried, O God, take me not away in the midst of my youth. Let me give you a vivid picture of this, which blesses my soul and speaks loudly to my heart. You remember in Gethsemane, and who else can enter into Gethsemane and penetrate the depths of his anguish? As he suffered there, and cried from the depth of his heart, Oh my God, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me. Nevertheless not mine will but thine be done, and he sweat as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground in his agony. Do you ever remember that it is said, and an angel comforted him? When he was tempted by Satan, the devil, in Luke four and Matthew four, it was the angels that brought him food, literal food that he could eat after the temptation. And they ministered unto him. They undoubtedly ministered to his physical comfort. But in Gethsemane's garden, it was not physical comfort he needed. something far greater. Go with me to Psalm one hundred and two, please. I want you to notice something very precious in regard to the weakening of his strength. Read verse twenty three with me, please, beginning there. And you have the language of the Lord Jesus. As in Gethsemane, he bowed in the agony of snow that was him. And recognize, now please realize, in his perfect humanity, He knew he was being cut off. The protections of his humanity, we emphasize. And we would realize the testing that was his to be cut off in the midst of his years. Read the words. He weakened my strength in the way. He shot in my days. I said, oh my God, take me not away. in the midst of my days. And who of us can enter into the thoughts and the feelings of the Son of God when in his humanity he thanked being coming up? For his feelings were perfectly human. But I want you to make a decided break at the end of that expression. He took me away, take me not away in the midst of my days. Now what follows? is an entirely different commentary, which could not be the language of his own heart and mouth, but could have been, and possibly was, the comfort of the angel. For the angel could comfort him by this divine declaration that follows. Take me not away in the lips of thy days, and the answer comes, thy years are throughout all generations. of all hast thou laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens of the work of thy hands, they shall perish, thou shalt endure, ye all of them shall wax old like a garment. As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee. O beloved, He turned the youth with him. The Lord had said that his body would never see corruption, and it never did. And he turned the youth with his head. And may I point out, not one hair fell from his blessed head. Not one hair was discolored to give the indication of decay and age. And thus in the beauty of his eternal usefulness, he still abides that when I look at you and when you look at me, when we see each other, gray hairs and the evidences of decay are here of monsters again and again. But not in him. That may I comfort as well as encourage and warm your heart as well as mine own to remind you that to all of his followers he has given that eternal youth. Having been born of youth, born again, he has bestowed upon his eternal youth. For though the outward man perish, yet the inward is renewed day by day. And though the body may fail, and though to the dust of the earth it may go, out of the dust of the earth it shall rise with the redemption of a new body and with the possession of eternal youth. And you'll never need to go to St. Augustine to find the fountain of eternal youth. If you found him, you found the fountain. And oh, beloved, to recognize Now are we the sons of God, and it does not appear what we shall be, but we know when he shall appear. We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Hallelujah. What a joy to realize. Eternal youth is our blessed being of men. I just wish I were already in it, in the glory that is to come. But thank God it's in him. He has given to his followers eternal youth. Blessed be his name. Cheer up. You're not going to be old long if you ever get old. But we're going to be young eternally when we get into their glory. Oh, thank God for the emblem of his flock being black as a raven to remind us he possesses eternal youth and has given it to all of his followers. Now shall we look at verse twelve, please? His eyes, they are the eyes of dove by the rivers of waters washed with milk and sit with them. And without going into the metaphorical description that dove suggests something, think with me of his eyes in particular, the eyes of our beloved and blessed Lord. For the eyes have much to reveal, even in the human character. And through the eyes, much is expressed regarding the character of the owner, and the eyes of the Blessed Lord Jesus. For from the fullness of his eyes, we find his character reflected. And from those eyes as done, there is a reflection of one who has tender, and infinite compassion and love. First of all, they are the eyes of love. My beloved fellow believer, when you and I met the Lord Jesus face to face for the first time, we saw the eyes of love. In the language of the prophet Ezekiel, when God wrote through him, and wrote of Israel, I'll say, I pass by thee, I looked upon thee, and behold, thy time, in all the filth that she was, thy time was the time of love. And God through the prophets stated how he loved Israel when she was in such a condition. And yet he goes on to state, but now thou art mine. Thou art mine. Thou hast become mine. And though, beloved, when he found you with me, in tenderness he sought me when I was lost in sin and by his spirit brought me back to his fold again and those eyes that he bestowed upon us when he saved us they were eyes of love and the joy of being able to look into the face of one whose eyes indicated John I love you And I died to save you. And those eyes of love, they melted the soul. And we became his. Love with everlasting love. Led by grace this love to know. Spirit breathing from above. Thou hast taught me, is it so? And what a joy to realize. We look into his eyes, and their eyes are firm. Second, they are eyes of gentle leading. Remember the words of the psalmist in Psalm thirty-two and verse eight? I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. I will guide thee with mine eye. The eyes of gentle leading. May I remind you of the context. I think the following verse there says, Be not as the horse, nor as the mule, whose mouth must be held in with bitter bridle. My beloved, these are the eyes of gentle leading. He says, I don't want to drive you like a mule. I don't want to drive you like a horse. I want to lead you gently. I think of that, dear old him. Lead me gently home, father. Leave me gently home. They are the eyes of gentle leading. Oh, that we would keep our hearts fixed upon his face and see the eyes of gentle leading. As we sang, All the way my Savior leaves me. What have I to ask beside? Can I doubt this tender mercy? Who through life has been my guide? Heavenly peace, divine is comfort, hereby faith with him to dwell. For I know what ere before me, Jesus doeth all things well. There are also eyes of immediate perception. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the whole earth to show himself strong on the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Second Chronicles, sixteen and verse nine. I think of the words of Hagar in Genesis sixteen, verse thirteen. Thou, God, seeeth me, the eyes of immediate perfection. Oh, thank God, you and I are never out of his sight. Walking over me day and night, and they are also eyes of compassionate kindness. Did you ever notice a lovely expression that found in Mark in chapter ten, verse twenty-one, when the rich young ruler came to the Lord Jesus and said, Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And the Lord conversed with him, and as the Lord spoke to his conscience and to his soul, The young man turned away and went from the Savior sorrowfully because he had great possessions. But do you remember the words that the writer Mark recalled? Jesus looking upon him loved him. And the Lord Jesus had a look of compassionate kindness upon that young man. For we saw even in his human character that which his own heart could rejoice in. And in compassionate kindness he rested his eyes on what is ever lovely in other beings. Would to God you and I should do the same. Then may I remind you of the well-known scripture. In John chapter eleven and verse thirty-five they were eyes of sympathetic friendship as he stood at the grave of Lazarus. You remember in John eleven, I think verse three? It says Jesus loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. And there if he stood at the grave of Lazarus who had been dead four days, Jesus wept. There were eyes of sympathetic friendship He could weep with those who weep. And in sympathy the tears poured down his precious face. And the Jews confessed, behold how he loved him. For they were eyes of sympathetic friendship. Oh, beloved, you know one of the greatest difficulties is to express sympathy. And not always do we feel capable of doing it. Not always can we ever bring forth the expression of sympathy that may be needed. But you will always find, here is one, who with eyes of doubt expresses sympathetic friendship. Do you remember the words of the hymn writer? There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. No, not one. I found a friend oh such a friend. He loved me here I knew him and so on. His eyes are the eyes of sympathetic friendship. And if all others were thank you, big friend never will. And you can depend upon his eyes of sympathy and friendship to be yours and to be mine. But also may I remark, many things could be that said, those eyes are the eyes of one who was the man of sorrow. And when you read in Luke twenty-three of the Lord Jesus coming to Jerusalem, and as you looked over the city of Jerusalem from that vantage point, he wept over that city, he wailed lamenting over the rejection of his people of himself. And he wept and mourned, for if he beheld the city, he wept. And in Luke nineteen, if he not wept, He spoke of the visitation of judgment that was to come upon the city for their rejection. How fitting are the words of Jeremiah in the lamentations? Jeremiah the weeping prophet? How his eyes wet for the condition of his people and the judgments of God that were prevailing? For these things I weep, said Jeremiah. Mine I runeth down with water. And the eyes of the man of sorrow, we follow the conditions that are among his own. Well, I know many times one's heart is wrong, and the mind and heart turns with sorrow for comfort to the Lord when we see conditions prevailing that are contrary to the mind of God. So did Jeremiah. He went over them. So did Elijah the prophet. He went, as well as prayed, over the situation in Israel. Be a fostered state of things. May I ask my beloved, do you and I share the sympathy of this blessed man of sorrows in relation to the conditions and even amongst his beloved people? For these things I weep, said Jeremiah, mine I runeth down with water. Mine eyes do fail for tears, said the prophet. Mine I runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughters of my people. Oh, beloved, may I suggest to you, look into those eyes of the Savior and recognize they are the eyes of the man of sorrows. And may you and I have the privilege of sharing his grief and his reproach while we are here in this present scene. And thus share, as the prophet Jeremiah then, the conditions that prevail with sorrow in his heart and with mourning and tears in his eyes. But then, one more thing in closing. I think of the Savior's words that Jeremiah wrote in Lamentations one twelve. So fitting of the Savior when he was on the cross. And Jeremiah said, Is it nothing to you that passed by? All literally, it is nothing to you that passed by. Behold and see if there be any sorrow, light unto my sorrow, when with the Lord hath afflicted me, in the day of his fierce anger, And this was the weeping and the mourning and sorrow for a lost world. Behold and see, if there be any sorrow, be light unto my sorrow, which the Lord has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. Oh, my beloved, would it be God that you and I knew something about weeping for this lost world. As we hear his voice from Calvary, telling of the depths of his sorrow, to redeem those who are constantly passing by his cross and rejecting his love and grace. I think it was our brother Arthur Smith wrote the words of that chorus, Lord crucified, give me a heart like thine, teach me to love the dying souls around. Oh, keep my heart in constant touch with thee, and give me love, pure Calvary love, to win the loss to thee. Oh, beloved, as we look at his hand, as we look at his lust, as we look at his eyes, may God help you and me to become more like him in our character and in our testimony for his glory. Amen. Shall we pray? Blessed God and Father, we thank thee for the glimpses, the Spirit of God, gift of our Savior in this precious word. We bless thee for the glory of the Lord that shines upon every page. And as we have looked upon him in the version of this account, in the song of Solomon, we have to confess there's no other one like him. And we pray that thou wilt keep us, thy people, looking unto Jesus. And grant that today we may thus keep our eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful faith, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace. Lord, we say in closing that it may be true of us. Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me. All of his wonderful passion and purity. O thou spirit divine, all my being refined. Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in me. Lord Jesus, Do transform as more and more each day to be conformed to thy likeness while we are here upon the earth, until we see thee face to face in glory. This is our closing prayer as we dismiss and commend each other to thy benediction of blessing, protection and grace in thy precious, holy and holy glory. and worthy name. Amen.