glory of its own, independent of the Divine Source of all its splendour, its activity, and its life. Let it labour to confirm in itself all the grand documents of revealed wisdom; and learn to call nothing wise, nothing glorious, nothing happy, but as it is in connection with that wisdom. Thus will it attain the glory for which it was originally designed, by entering into a participation of the divine glory, through communication and conjunction with the Eternal Word, the only source of all true glory.
Is it asked again, who, amongst the children of men, is most glorious, or possesses the highest degree of glory? The answer again is equally plain,-—it is not he who possesses the greatest quantity of science, but whose science is of the best quality; and his science is of the best quality who most submits it to the eternal truth. True glory, therefore, does not belong to men of great natural talents, or of extensive acquirements of human learning, merely as such, but it belongs to that humble Christian, howsoever moderate his talents may be, or howsoever limited his science, who submits all that he knows to the Divine Parent of all knowledge, and labours thus by humility, purity, and a good life, to connect it with the source of all true glory, the eternal truth and wisdom of the Most High God.
