Standing, with his face towards Calvary, with his eye on the cross, and with his mind intent upon the compassion and condescension of a suffering Saviour, he was carried beyond himself, and was borne away, by the impulse of a mightier and more generous motive. So it is, in all the higher achievements of the Christian life. It is not, by sitting down to meditate upon the prospect of our perfect sanctification, that we gather the strongest motives to the pursuit of holiness. Our best seasons, both of feeling and action, are those, in which we think least of ourselves, and most, of the love of God, of the compassion of Christ, of the claims of gratitude and duty, and of the beauty and excellency of holiness itself.

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