principle can never spring from unrenewed nature. It is, "the wisdom that is from above" and, "is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy."[1]
Whoever takes the hand of this heavenly guide, and follows her directions, shall pass safely through the perilous voyage of life, laden, not with corruptible treasures; but, with the riches of Christ and his gospel, and arrive at home, home to heaven, where they shall unite with kindred spirits in celebrating the praises of God and the Lamb forever and ever. This wisdom, in her ethereal flights, stops not among the rolling orbs of the planetary world. She mounts up infinitely higher. Her native place is in the palace of the King of Saints and angels. Thither she ascends, and unfolds to the eye of faith, the glorious reward of righteousness:—
- ↑ Jam. iii., 17.
