The Best of Ways to the Best of Possessions

“//” 7na7i sJiotdd offer a lordship or a farm to aiiothcr, and he should say, The way is dirty and danger’oiis, and the weather very troublesome, I will not look after it; would you not accuse the man of folly who thus loved his ease and pleasu7’e? But, now, if this man were assured of a pleasant path and a good way if he would but take a little pains to go over and see it, it we7’e gross folly indeed to refuse itP Such is the folly of those who refuse the great inheritance of God. It were worth while to spend a lifetime in prison if thereby we could obtain the Kingdom of God; but we are not called to such suffering, the way to eternal life by Christ Jesus is made plain and easy by the Holy Spirit who bids us believe and live. To believe that which is most surely true cannot be unpleasant to a sincere mind; to trust in One who cannot lie cannot be a hardship to an honest heart. In fact, the way of true religion is the path of wisdom, and we know that her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. Who would not go to heaven when Christ is the way? — the dearest, holiest, and happiest way that can be conceived. Since the way to heaven is heavenly, and the road to bliss is bhss, who will not become a pilgrim My soul, be thou in love with the way as well as with the end, since thy Lord is the one as well as the other.