its power can transform them into the image of God, that in it are contained ‘all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,’ that it offers peace such as the world cannot give, that it makes those who embrace it heirs of heaven and children of God, and that even the present portion of a Christian, rich though it be, is but an earnest of far greater blessings hereafter, who would not, in such a case, imitate the eagerness and zeal set forth in the parables, and even part with all that he possessed to