The Beauty Of The World

In All Your Course, Walk With God And Follow Christ As A Little, Poor, Helpless Child, Taking Hold Of Christ's Hand, Keeping Your Eye On The Mark Of The Wounds On His Hands And Side, Whence Came The Blood That Cleanses You From Sin And Hiding Your Nakedness Under The Skirt Of The White Shining Robe Of His Righteousness.

Family Education And Order Are Some Of The Chief Means Of Grace; If These Are Duly Maintained, All The Means Of Grace Are Likely To Prosper And Become Effectual.

Immediately Upon The Fall, The Mind Of Man Shrank From Its Primitive Greatness And Expandedness, To An Exceeding Smallness And Contractedness... Before, His Soul Was Under The Government Of The Noble Principles Of Divine Love, Whereby It Was Enlarged To The Comprehensiveness Of All His Fellow Creatures And Their Welfare... [but] Sin, Like Some Powerful Astringent, Contracted His Soul To The Very Small Dimensions Of Selfishness, And God Was Forsaken, And Man Retired Within Himself, And Became Totally Governed By Narrow And Selfish Principles And Feelings.

That There Should Absolutely Be Nothing At All Is Utterly Impossible. The Mind, Let It Stretch Its Conceptions Ever So Far, Can Never So Much As Bring Itself To Conceive Of A State Of Perfect Nothing.

Resolved, To Examine Carefully, And Constantly, What That One Thing In Me Is, Which Causes Me In The Least To Doubt The Love Of God; And To Direct All My Forces Against It.