The mind and words of Jesus Author:John Ross Macduff Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 6th Vc .nM.v. " Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth."— Matt. XI. 26. A Thankful ... more »spirit per- vaded the entire Iife of Jesus, and surrounded with a heavenly halo His otherwise darkened path. In moments we least expect to find it, this beauteous ray breaks through the gloom. In instituting the memorial of His death, He " gave thanks!" Even in crossing the Kedron to Gethsemane, " He sang an hymn!" We know in seasons of deep sorrow and trial that everything wears a gloomy aspect. Dumb Nature herself to the burdened spirit seems as if she partook in the hues of sadness. The life of Jesus was one continuous experience of privation and woe—a " Valley of Baca," from first to last; yet, amid accents of plaintive sorrow, there are ever heardsubdued undertones of thankfulness and Ah, if He, the suffering " Man of Sorrows," could, during a life of unparalleled woe, lift up His heart in grateful acknowledgment to His Father in heaven, how ought the lives of those to be one perpetual " hymn of thankfulness," who are from day to day and hour to hour (for all they have, both temporally and spiritually) pensioners on God's bounty and love! Reader! cultivate this thankful spirit . it wiil be to thee a perpetual feast. There is, or ought to be, with us no such thing as small mercies; all are great, because the least are undeserved. Indeed, a really, thankful heart will extract motive for gratitude from every- thing, making the most even of scanty blessings. St. Paul, when in his dungeon at Rome, a prisoner in chains, is heard to say, "I have aU, and abound!" Guard, on the other hand, against that spirit of continual fretting and moping over fancied ills ; that temptation to exaggerate the real or suppo...« less