A nobleman in the north of England once said to a friend who accompanied him on a walk, "These beautiful grounds, as far as your eye can reach, those forests of valuable timber on the mountain-side, and those vast mines full of precious metals, all belong to me. Yonder powerful steam-engines obtain the produce of my mines, and those ships convey my wealth to other parts of the kingdom." "Well, my lord," his friend replied, "do you see yonder small cottage that seems but a small speck on your estate? There dwells a poor woman who can say more than all this, for she can say, 'Christ is mine.' She was once ignorant of all religious truths, but she sought the guiding light, which brought her to the Saviour. In a few years you must give up your possessions, for you can carry nothing away with you when9you die; but when she leaves this world, she will enter upon a nobler inheritance, reserved for those kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation."—Selected.