“Blessed are they that mourn.” Though the primary reference is to that initial mourning commonly called conviction of sin, it is by no means to be limited to that. Mourning is ever a characteristic of the normal Christian state. There is much that the believer has to mourn over. The plague of his own heart makes him cry, “O wretched man that I am” (Rom. 7:24). The unbelief that “doth so easily beset us” (Heb. 12:1) and sins that we commit, which are more in number than the hairs of our head, are