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 truth and doctrine, is slow in attaining celestial love; while love, seeing the truth from intuition, gains its object quickly. The progress which love makes in the heavenly life in comparison with faith, is as running to walking; thus, in Scripture, running is put to signify the ardent progress of the will; and walking, the slower calculating powers of the understanding. Both are blessed; for in waiting upon the Lord, Love shall run and not be weary; Faith shall walk and not faint. (Isa. xl. 31.) Love is never weary, and faith, in the delight of acquiring truth, can never faint.

Reader! if celestial love shall rule and direct thee in all thy ways, thou wilt be first at the sepulchre, to feel within thy soul that the Lord is risen indeed to bless thee for ever with the Light of Life.

HIS chapter opens with an account of the Lord Jesus Christ miraculously restoring sight to a man who was blind from his birth; and were we to imagine that no other instruction is contained in this narrative but what appears in the words themselves, it would still raise our minds to contemplate with gratitude the compassion of Jesus, who, by the most simple means, restored to the once sightless eyeballs of a human being, the pleasures and blessings of a clear vision. O what a rich variety of real beauties are exhibited by the rising and setting sun! by the