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Updated: May 6, 2025
That which makes us rich must be, not a multitude of precious stones, howsoever precious they may be, but one Pearl of great price; the one Christ who is our only joy. And He says to us that He gives us Himself, if we behold Him and bow to Him, that His joy might remain in us, and that our joy might be full, while all other gladnesses are partial and transitory. Faith in Christ makes life blessed.
Brethren! life is an insoluble riddle unless the purpose of it lie yonder, and unless all this patient training of our sorrows and our gladnesses, the warmth that expands and the cold that contracts the heart, the light that gladdens and the darkness that saddens the eye and the spirit, are equally meant for training us for the perfect life of a perfect soul moving a perfect body in a perfect universe.
There had been a bonfire there on Coronation Night, and it had all died down, and that was the end a hideous ring of scorched barrenness amidst the verdure. Take care that your gladnesses do not die down like that, but that they are pure, and being pure are undying.
You can do it. Delay is disobedience, and may be death. Do it now, and your whole life will be changed. Peace and joy and power will come to you, and you, made a new man, will move in a new world of new relations, duties, energies, loves, gladnesses, helps, and hopes.
One came to my cell and said, 'Come, rejoice with us a baby is born in the house. Thou wert the baby; and thy appearance was the first of the great gladnesses to which I have referred. "And not less distinctly I live over the hour we met in the chapel to christen thee.
There is a wonderful calming power in realising our possession of God as our portion not stagnating, but quieting. I am quite sure that the troubles of our lives, and the gladnesses of our lives, which often distract, would be far less operative in disturbing, if we felt more that God was ours and that we were God's. Brethren! 'there is no joy but calm. To be at rest is better than rapture.
The opposite of light is darkness; the opposite of heat is cold; of the times of the world the opposites are day and night, summer and winter; of affections the opposites are joys and mourning, also gladnesses and sadnesses; of perceptions the opposites are goods and evils, also truths and falses; and of sensations the opposites are things delightful and things undelightful.
But then, that is not depreciatory of his power and eloquence surely not. To Mr. Dear Mr. Chorley, Kindnesses are more frequent things with me than gladnesses, but I thank you earnestly for both in the letter I have this moment received. I thank you, dear Mr. Chorley. After all, we are not quite strangers.
And that is what trusting towards Christ will do for our gladnesses. Lastly, in one word, let me lay upon your consciences, as Christian people III. The Obligation of Gladness. Peter takes it for granted that all these brethren to whom he is writing have experience of this deep and ennobled joy.
Booth's fierce struggle into a ceaseless song! My grace is sufficient for thee! To the man who like John Bunyan, stands weighing his gladnesses and sadnesses with that text in his mind, it will seem that the one scale is overflowing and the other empty. For it is the glory of the grace that it takes what sadnesses there are and transmutes them into songs sublime.
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