calls him home from a life of sorrow to a world of eternal joy; and he knows that it is right that he should call his children home when he pleases. He can realize the truth that death, however dreadful and terrible to nature, is to the soul of the pious and genuine disciple of Jesus, an eternal gain.
Inferences: 1. How steadfast the believer's attachment ought to be to the cause of the blessed Jesus.
2. How safe the state of the believer is. It is well with him now; and when he looks forward to the contingencies of futurity he has an assurance of the presence of the Savior.
3. How awful the state of those who have no friend in Christ.
THE GOSPEL NET.
- WINFIELD, April 4, 1835.
Luke 5: 5.—"Nevertheless, at thy word, I will let down the net."
The history of our Savior is characterized by amazing condescension. Though he was one who thought it not robbery to be equal with God; and all the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily; yet generally we see him, while tabernacled in the flesh, in a low state, having nowhere to lay his head, despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Still, though this was the general character of the condition in which our Savior appeared, we sometimes see him appear in the majesty of God, commanding the elements to be still, and they obey; casting out devils with the word of his mouth; giving eyes to the blind, ears to the deaf, feet to the lame and life to the dead.
