The real cure for covetousness—namely, contentment. This is a rare drug in the market. Unbelief calls you to go from improbability to impossibility; from extravagance to romance; from romance to raving. Our dear babes go home because “He gathereth the lambs with His arms and carrieth them in his bosom;” and our ripe saints go home because the Beloved is come into His garden to gather lilies. These words of our Lord Jesus explain the continual home-going; they are the answer to the riddle which we
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