A Single Star Led to Jesus.
By Henry Ward Beecher
THOSE hours when you feel a strange drawing toward that which is pure, and true, and right, are hours of God’s visitation. Your soul is not far from its Maker in such hours. Be grateful for those periods of peculiar yearnings away from evil and toward good. Take them. They are open doors to your prison-house. Are there any bad habits, any evil courses to which you have been addicted, about which you have pondered, and of which you have said, “Oh, that I could be set free from them!” Venture, break away from your wicked ways, do not wait till the spark becomes a flame, take a little, and go to that toward which it points. It was a star that led the wise men to the place where Jesus lay. When but a single star shines from that which is right, and pure, and true, follow it, and it will lead you to the place where the young child Jesus lies. —Henry Ward Beecher.