has looked different to me since I found it out--that there must be
ONE, in whom all goodness is gathered together; ONE, who must be
perfectly and absolutely good? And did it never strike you, that all
the goodness in the world must, in some way or other, come from HIM?
I believe that our hearts and reasons, if we will listen fairly to
them, tell us that it must be so; and I am certain that the Bible
tells us so, from beginning to end. When we see the million rain-
drops of the shower, we say, with reason, there must be one great sea
from which all these drops have come. When we see the countless rays
of light, we say, with reason, there must be one great central sun
from which all these are shed forth. And when we see, as it were,
countless drops, and countless rays of goodness scattered about in
the world, a little good in this man, and a little good in that,
shall we not say, there must be one great sea, one central sun of
goodness, from whence all human goodness comes? And where can that
centre of goodness be, but in the very character of God himself?

Yes, my friends; if you would know what God is, think of all the
noble, beautiful, loveable actions, tempers, feelings, which you ever
saw or heard of. Think of all the good, and admirable, and loveable
people whom you ever met; and fancy to yourselves all that goodness,
nobleness, admirableness, loveableness, and millions of times more,
gathered together in one, to make one perfectly good character--and
then you have some faint notion of God, some dim sight of God, who is
the eternal and perfect Goodness.

It is but a faint notion, no doubt, that the best man can have of
God's goodness, so dull has sin made our hearts and brains: but let
us comfort ourselves with this thought--That the more we learn to
love what is good, the more we accustom ourselves to think of good