Meditation

The duty of stated Meditation is much neglected. Yet no one ever made high, at* tainments in experience, without it. This exercise is necessary in order to the reception of due benefit from the Word. Seize favourable moments for solemn, devout, continued thinking upon divine truth; such, as the early morning, the twilight, the wakeful hours of night, and the Sabbath day. Pause and ask yourself, whether you have ever considered this a duty, and whether you have ever practised it. Learn this art; sweeten your thoughts on retiring for the night with some good word of inspiration, and you will soon exclaim with gratitude, ‘’In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.”* Especially should the glo-

* Psalm 94: 19.

rious person of the Lord Jesus, be the object of your fixed contemplation, after having sat at his table.