Conclusion

Beloved brethren in the Lord, is this the simple character of the Christianity we profess? Is Christ so simply, so singly the object of our souls, as to be the power of the displacement of all that we have clung to in the past; all that would entangle us, and make us turn our backs on the Cross, in the present; and. all the schemes and expectations, the fears or anticipations of the future?
To his heart, whose aspirations have for a while arrested the current of our thoughts, CHRIST was all this. And, Oh! may the precious grace of that God who separated him from his mother's womb and called him by His grace, and was pleased to reveal His Son in him, that he might preach him among the heathen, make it the one object of our souls that CHRIST may be thus revealed, restored, to our hearts! Too often the measure of practical godliness which may mark us-the reading of the word, our prayer, our self-denial--look not beyond ourselves; or at least not beyond the limit or that service on which the heart may be set for Christ. These things are necessary to maintain a tone of piety, and to keep the heart from being driven backward by the world's adverse current. But this is not "conversation, in heaven." This is not CHRIST filling, from the, center to the circumference, our affections and our hearts! This is not "CHRIST dwelling in our hearts by faith!" This is not, with the Apostle, to do "One Thing!"
There is a hand that can remove every film from our darkened vision, and make us "with unveiled face [to] behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, [and be thus] changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord:"-then, and then only, shall we be able to say, " This one thing I do!"