What is the "Eyesalve?"
By M. E. Cornell
It is composed of seven different ingredients, according to the Apostle. See 2 Pet. v, 1-9. After naming the seven parts, he says, "He that lacketh these things is BLIND," &c. Of course then, he that has them is not blind, and hence it is the genuine "eye-salve." To make the eye-salve, then, Take a sufficient quantity of Faith, then add, 1. Virtue; 2. Knowledge; 3. Temperance; 4. Patience; 5. Godliness; 6. Brotherly Kindness; 7. Charity. In attempting to put these ingredients together, great care is to be exercised lest the whole effort prove a failure. Do not try to add the 7th to the 1st, but remember that Charity follows Brotherly Kindness. Charity is the cap-stone of the building, while Faith is only the foundation. There are always several parts, in a well built edifice, between the foundation and roof. We hear some cry, "Charity," while destitute of Temperance, Patience, and Brotherly Kindness; but the Apostle James says, "First pure, then peaceable." There is evidently a great lack among us of each of the seven parts of this inspired specific for spiritual blindness. But let this remedy be faithfully applied, and doubtless the scales will fall, and sight will be restored to the great joy of all who apply it.