Excerpt from The Mount of Blessing, or Lectures on the Beatitudes
Dear friend, - Permit me to detain you a mo ment. The Lectures you are about to read are upon one of the most beautiful and interesting portions of Divine truth. The Beatitudes have ever been admired. They show us so much of the Savior’s heart; they so graphically pencil the characters he loves; they unseal such a full and sweet fountain of comfort, that a pious mind can not fail to realize both pleasure and profit in meditating upon them. So peculiarly are they constructed, if I may thus speak, that they adapt themselves, in some degree, to every kind of temperament, to every stage of Christian experience, and every circumstance of human life. They delineate character, they prompt us to an effort of imitation, and pronounce a bless ing upon every humble and sincere endeavor. Standing, as we seem to, around the Mount, under the uplifted hands of Jesus, while blessings, like the river of life, pour from his Opening lips, our weakness should change to strength, our despair to joyful hope, and our tottering footsteps to a firm and rapid movement along the highway of holiness.
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