The Worth of a Christian

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 15, 1858

The Worth of a Christian.

It appears not what we are to the world, and it hardly appears what we shall be to ourselves; for did they know that we are jewels of God, the favorites of heaven, the excellency of the creation, the beloved of Christ; they would not mock and persecute us as they do: or if we did but know that we should be glorified together with Christ; that his happiness shall be our happiness, and that his joy shall be our joys, and his glories shall be our glories, truly we should not be so much dejected as we are. When I consider that when Christ shall appear I shall be like him, I wonder it doth so much as trouble me.