A Long Lease Enhances Value

‘“‘’ If a man might have a cottage on a hundred years’ lease, he would prise it much more than the possession of a palace for a dayP Of course he would; and this it is which adds so much preciousness to the joys of heaven, for they are eternal. The pleasures of this world, however bright they seem, are but for this one day of life, which is already half over. If they were all they profess to be, and a thousand times more, they would not be worthy to be mentioned in comparison with “pleasures for evermore” at God’s right hand.

O Thou who fillest eternity, impress me with the solemn import of that word, and let me feel that all time’s fleeting cares and caresses are as dreams; while the things of eternity alone have substance in them.. Give me thy grace that I may “lay hold on eternal life.”