April 13

The grace that should come unto you. — 1 PETER i. 10.

Blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them: and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. — MATT. xiii. 16, 17.

THE superior blessedness of Christian privileges is manifold. For example, in respect to our knowledge of God, — his nature, character, purposes, methods; in respect to our knowledge of man, — his unity, fall, needs, moral capacities; in respect to our knowledge of duties, which comes to us through this knowledge of God and of man; in respect to our knowledge of a future life, — its certainty and possibilities; in respect to our knowledge of the promised Messiah, — his divinity, his humanity, his spirituality; in respect to our knowledge of the way of salvation, — the divinity of its mediation, the fulness of its scope, the completeness of its details, the freedom of its provisions; in respect to our knowledge of the nature of worship, — a spirit rather than a letter, a character rather than a formula, a life rather than a drill; in respect to the motives which Christianity in distinction from Mosaism sets before us, — motives inspired by the character of Jesus rather than by the sanctions of the law; in brief, in respect to all higher ranges of thought, experience, aspiration, possibility, — in all these the lowliest disciple under Jesus is greater than the greatest disciple under Moses, for the Christian as compared with the Jew has been translated from the realm of prophecy into the realm of fulfilment.

George Dena Boardman

How blessed are our eyes, That see this heavenly light! Prophets and kings desired it long, But died without the sight.

WATTS.