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HERE is no truth in nature more self-evident than the one which is here spoken of, namely—that where a man's treasure is, there will also his heart be. To suppose that a man would not place his heart or best affections upon his treasure, is to suppose a total subversion of nature! There is no book on earth that so accurately describes the true nature of man, as the book of Revelation, and here we have it declared by our Lord himself—the truth of which is proved by experience in everyday life—that where a man's treasure is, there will his heart be also. Such is the immutable law of nature. Such is the immutable law of God. It is not in the power of either man or angel to separate the heart from its treasure!—"where the treasure is, there will the heart be also."

There are two kinds of treasure, one applicable to the soul of man, the other to his body—the former to life eternal, the latter to temporal life. The great duty, then, of every Christian is to ascertain upon which of these two his best affections are placed. His best affections collectively are his heart, and whatever may be the objects upon which these affections are fixed, these, to all intents and purposes, are his treasures. How easy, then, it is for every Christian to know what his treasures are! How easy to be honest to himself! How easy to procure treasures