All Spiritual Blessings

December 8.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings.

EPHESIANS 1, verse 3.


As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.

2 CORINTHIANS 6, verse 10.


It is not happiness I seek,
Its name I hardly dare to speak;
It is not made for man or earth,
And Heaven alone can give it birth.
There is a something sweet and pure,
Through life, through death it may endure;
With steady foot I onward press,
And long to win that Blessedness.

LOUISA J. HALL.


The elements of happiness in this present life no
man can command, even if he could command
himself, for they depend on the action of many
wills, on the purity of many hearts, and by the
highest law of God the holiest must ever bear
the sins and sorrows of the rest; but over the
blessedness of his own spirit circumstance need
have no control; God has therein given an
unlimited power to the means of preservation,
of grace and growth, at every man's command.

J. H. THOM.


There is in man a higher than love of happiness:
he can do without happiness, and instead thereof
find blessedness!

T. CARLYLE.