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"Now I say unto you, that the heir, so long as he is a child, DIFFERETH NOTHING FROM A SERVANT, though he be lord of all."
There is, moreover, every reason to believe that each person must retain his own individual features of mind and peculiarities of character, there as well as here. All the stars will shine in brilliancy, and sweep in orbits more or less wide around the great centre, but "each star differeth from another star in glory."
"It brings to my min' the words o' the apostle 'Noo I say, that the heir, sae lang as he's but a bairn, differeth naething frae a servan', though he be lord o' a'. Eh, Cosmo, but the word admits o' curious illustration!" Cosmo set the horse, as soon as he had done giving him his supper of diamonds, again in his old stall, and replaced the stones that had shut him in as well as he could.
The whole countrey differeth very much from it selfe, by reason of the yeere: so that a man would marueile to see the great, alteration and difference betwixt the Winter, and the Summer Russia. And this continueth commonly fiue moneths, viz. from the beginning of Nouember till towardes the ende of March, what time the snow beginneth to melt.
PSALM viii. 3, 4. "The day is Thine, the night also is Thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.... Thou hast made summer and winter." PSALM lxxiv. 16, 17. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." ECCLESIASTES xi. 7. "One star differeth from another star in glory." 1 CORIN. xv. 41.
For His own purposes He has made one race to differ from another, as one star differeth from another in glory. The great objects of humanity are best attained, when conformed to His laws and decrees in the formation of government as well as in all things else. Our Confederacy is founded on a strict conformity with those laws.
Yet to fail to see that what we must call intelligence pervades and is active in all organic nature is to be spiritually blind. But to see it as something foreign to, or separable from, nature is to do violence to our faith in the constancy and sufficiency of the natural order. One star differeth from another star in glory. There are degrees of mystery in the universe.
Through our faith in Christ Abraham gains paternity over us and over the nations of the earth according to the promise: "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." Through faith we belong to Christ and Christ to us. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be Lord of all;
He tells us that "one star differeth from another star in glory," and astronomers have discovered that there was a deeper truth than they at first imagined underlying these words. But what I specially want to speak of for a moment is the number of these heavenly bodies, and their distance from us.
"My little Katharine, you have yet to understand that 'the heir, so long as he is a child, differeth in nothing from a servant, but is under tutors and governors. You will not have any power over yourself or your property till you are twenty-one." "But you are my tutor and my governor, and my spiritual pastor and master," said Kate.
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