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 having no tendency to wax old, or to approach towards decay; it is further evident from the nature of this treasure, and from its place of residence—it is said to be in the heavens, and that it faileth not—it is also still further evident from its being said that no thief can approach it, or moth corrupt it.

It would be of no use to instruct mankind in the knowledge of heaven, and to describe the unbounded bliss of that world, with the purity of its joys and never-dying pleasures, if at the same time he had no faculty or vessel into which these pleasures could flow, to give him a conscious perception of their reality, and a foretaste of their joys! Neither would it be of any use to speak to him of truth, or of that light which makes manifest the wisdom of the angelic life, and the glory of its scenes, if at the same time he had no faculty into which that light could flow, that his own eyes, and not those of another, may enjoy the brightness of the heavenly objects! To describe to a man the most perfect of all joy, and the pleasures of angelic wisdom, while he has no power to enjoy them, is only to mock him in his distress, and to triumph in his poverty. But the Divine Being, in the fulness of his wisdom, has created man in his own image, and according to his likeness! He has enriched him with the faculties of will and understanding, into these the divine lives of love and wisdom, good and truth—the holiness and light of heaven, perpetually flow! These make a marked distinction between him and the inferior creation—proclaim his high birth and eternal destiny! they are the very grounds of his immortality; and these are the faculties which our Lord calls the "bags which wax not old." Seek these, within