We Communicate Happiness To Others Not Often

Even Papists Could Not See That A Moral Evil Was Detained In The Soul Through Its Physical Connection With The Body; And That It Required The Dissolution Of This Physical Connection Before The Moral Contagion Could Be Removed.

We Communicate Happiness To Others Not Often By Great Acts Of Devotion And Self-sacrifice, But By The Absence Of Fault-finding And Censure, By Being Ready To Sympathize With Their Notions And Feelings, Instead Of Forcing Them To Sympathize With Ours.

This Perfection Is The Restoration Of Man To The State Of Holiness From Which He Fell, By Creating Him Anew In Christ Jesus, And Restoring To Him That Image And Likeness Of God Which He Has Lost.

Verse 11. (they Presented Unto Him Gifts). The People Of The East Never Approach The Presence Of Kings And Great Personages, Without A Present In Their Hands. The Custom Is Often Noticed In The Old Testament, And Still Prevails In The East, And In Some Of The Newly Discovered South Sea Islands.

It Is The Grace Of God, That Shows And Condemns The Sin That Humbles Us.