Andthey cried with a loud voice, saying, salvation to our God which sitteth uponthe throne, and unto the Lamb. Rev. 7:10.

This is the cry of the ransomed aroundthe throne when the universe is dissolving in wreck, and terror is filling thehearts of men. It is the first cry of the ransomed after theyreach their home and have seen all that it means to be lost and to be saved,while the earth is reeling, and the elements are melting, and all things arequaking and trembling in the first approaches of the great catastrophe. They see behind them all the way through which the Lord has led them;down that long vista they behold the toils they have come through and theperils they have escaped, and they recognize how tenderly the grace of God hasled them on and kept them safe. They see the robes and crowns thatare prepared for them, and all the joy of the eternal future which is openingbefore them. They see all this, and then they behold Himwhose hand has kept it all safely for them, and whose heart has chosen it forthem. They look back upon all the past: they lookforward into all the future; they look up into the face of Him to whom it wasall due, and then they lift up their voices in one glad exultant cry,"Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." This is what salvation means; this is what they have believed for;this is what He died to give them. They have it all. They are saved, and the full realization of it has come home to theirheart at last.