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126 God's son; and the blessings of his Heavenly Father prevail over all other blessings, even those of creation, extending to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. These are the hills of which the Psalmist speaks, when he says, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help: my help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth" (Ps. cxxi. 1). The utmost bound of the everlasting hills is where charity rises into mutual love,—that brotherly love of which Joseph was so eminent an example, that love of one another by which the disciples of Jesus are to be known of all men, which has its dwelling place in the Lord's church on earth and its eternal home in heaven. "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the dew of Hermon, that descended upon the mountains of Zion, for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore!" This is the blessing of all blessings, it is that which "shall be upon the head of Joseph and on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren;" and which shall be the