All Good to the Christian.
EVERY positive good belongs to the Christian. The gifts of God strewed so thickly around us are to be used. The Christian has a higher enjoyment of these things indeed than others, because he mingles thankfulness with them as gifts of God. He has a higher enjoyment of nature, the symbol and song, the expression of higher, more joyful emotions, than the mere man of the world knows. While others appreciate the poetry of the common sentiments of life, he rises to that which came from prophets and holy men, and expresses the deepest religious emotions of the soul. He has a purer and better enjoyment of social life than others have. Then he throws over all, the hues of immortality. To him the landscape here stands dressed in living green. The Christian heart is like a lake in the midst of the mountains. Every pleasant image of earth and all the broad expanse of heaven, lie mirrored in its sleeping depths. The present and the temporal not only are there, but the eternal; and the light from heaven bathes all the scene. There are joys in the Christian's heart deeper than any reflections though they be mountain peaks of earthly delights.—Sel.