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 with the formation of all those spiritual principles, affections, and powers, in which, and by the exercise of which, the spiritual life of man consists, and is rendered supremely happy. "Lift up your eyes on high and behold who hath created these things."

Dear reader, lift up thine eyes on high! Let thy understanding be elevated to contemplate the Divine Truth: the riches of thy heavenly Father's kingdom will then become thy riches—thou wilt thus advance in wisdom and love, and finally thou wilt obtain a state of everlasting happiness in the realms of bliss;—where to the great Creator of all things thou wilt joyfully ascribe all the power, glory, and dominion for ever.

HE doctrines and truths of Revelation, which open wonders to the human mind; which exhibit a clear knowledge of God, heaven, and life eternal, together with that state which forms heaven in the soul of man, and adapts him to enjoy its celestial delights; all these doctrines and truths in the complex are here represented by "treasure hid in a field." Now this sacred Treasure—these doctrines of truth, were not given or deposited in the field or Church merely that we might know of their existence, that we might talk of them as being there, as though we were to be contented with a knowledge of their