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Rh all these the Scriptures tell explicitly. Also we find here how we can obtain this salvation. Also how a Christian shall do his duty through practicing piety in Christian virtue and rise step by step to become more like Him who created and redeemed him. I say in all these things we are instructed by the teachings of Christ and His Apostles, in the New Testament.

Now I should tell of each exercise in detail, how it is customary with children to have them read a passage relative to one or another quality, then to ask questions and have them answered by another quotation, so that one impresses the other, explains and amplifies it. But to explain all this would be very tedious. But as Holy Script contains everything, that is the place to seek and to find it. And because in Christ Jesus all treasures of knowledge and wisdom are hidden, I refer myself and all others to Scripture where such can be found. (Jerem. xxix, 13; Matth. vii, 7.) Does not the world seek diligently for honor and property, for gold, silver and precious stones? These and other treasures are held in righ esteem by the world, yet they are perishable, and not to be compared to the immortal treasures God offers us in His word. As we seek, so shall we find. If we seek the world in the delights of the eye and of the flesh and in vain living, we shall find it so, and finally also find the world's share and wages. But whosoever seeks God and everlasting life and follows Christ's footprints faithfully, he will also find and not seek in vain. His search will not be left unrewarded. (John xii, 26; Chap, xiv, 3; Chap, xvii, 24.)