SOLOMON charges us to "buy the truth, and sell it not." Purchase it at any price, and part with it at none. Many have refused to give its price, and others have parted with it, infinitely below its worth. Paul, who had made great sacrifices to obtain this precious pearl, when writing to the Christian Hebrews, who had also given their all for it, said, "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised." Not a few have done this. A poor girl, who resided on the seacoast of England, was asked, when dying, by a clergyman, what she thought of Jesus; her reply was beautiful and sublime—"Jesus," said she, "I cleave to him as the limpets to the rocks." Excellent girl, who does not almost envy her? . Yes, the Christian will cling to Jesus in spite of everything. The stormy ocean, hurling its destructive fury around, only causes the limpets to cleave to the rocks more firmly. So was it with Job; the more heavily his sorrows fell upon him, the more fully did he determine, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him."
When tempted to desert the truth, or to renounce the cause of Christ, "we may," says Andrew Fuller, "imagine the martyrs calling to us. One may say, 'Hold it fast; I died in a dungeon, rather than forego it.' Hold it fast, says another, 'I bled for it.' 'Hold it fast,' says a third, 'I burned for it.'"
Let this duty be considered as practically developing on every one who has named the name of Christ. Let us boldly confess Christ, and cleave to him constantly, that so we may humbly expect that he will own us in the presence of his Father and an assembled universe.