blessedness--unfathomably deep. This is the life of faith. We live by
faith, and not by sight. We do not preach that all is
disappointment--the dreary creed of sentimentalism; but we preach that
_nothing_ here is disappointment, if rightly understood. We do not
comfort the poor man, by saying that the riches that he has not now he
will have hereafter--the difference between himself and the man of
wealth being only this, that the one has for time what the other will
have for eternity; but what we say is, that that which you have failed
in reaping here, you never will reap, if you expected the harvest of
Canaan. God has no Canaan for His own; no milk and honey for the
luxury of the senses: for the city which hath foundations is built in
the soul of man. He in whom Godlike character dwells, has all the
universe for his own--"All things," saith the apostle, "are yours;
whether life or death, or things present, or things to come; if ye be
Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the
_promise_."




VII.

_Preached June 23, 1850._

THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST.


"For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge,
that if one died for all, then were all dead; and that He died for
all that they which live should not henceforth live unto