A Christian's End

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 22, 1857

A Christian's End.

Wise agents always consider their end before they set upon their work; and then direct their actions to that end they proposed. If the mariner launch, it is that he may get to such a harbor; therefore he sails by compass, that he may compass what he sails for. A Christian should have always one eye upon his end, and the other eye upon his way. That man lives a brutish life, that knows not what he lives for: and he acts but a fool's part, that aims at heaven, and lives at random. A wise Christian's end of living is, that he may live without end, and therefore his way of living is, that he may live continually to spend his life in the ways of life; he is always walking in those paths, where he sees heaven before him. O my soul! what is it that thou aimest at? is it a full enjoyment of thy God? Why then, whilst thou art present in this body, be always drawing near to the Lord: so when thou shalt be absent from this body, then thou shalt be always present with the Lord.

Sel.