[Though not truly interested in the Saviour, you are highly privileged : because you have an infinitely better guide than ever the Magi had, even the word of God, which will be a light to your feet, and a lantern to your paths ; and will infallibly, if duly followed, lead you to the Saviour's presence. Improve, then, your privileges ; and let them remind you of your ohligatioyis also: for if your light be more clear than theirs, so should your surrender of yourselves to Christ be more entire.]
2. The inquiring Christian —
[You, like the Magi, may feel discouragement in your journey heavenward ; and, through the withdrawment of light from your soul, be ready to doubt whether you shall ever , attain the object of your desires. But hold on, in the midst of all discouragements ; and doubt not but that your labour shall be crowned with success at last : for God's promise to you is, " Then shall ye know, if ye follow on to know the Lord. His goings forth are prepared as the morning ; and he shall come unto you as the rain, as the former and as the latter rain upon the earth ^."]
3. The assured Christian —
[You have found the Saviour, and presented yourselves to him. Now, then, shew yourselves worthy of this high privilege. A sad indifference exists in relation to him, even amongst those who from their office and their general information ought to be most forward in calling the attention of others to him. And, from the reports which we have of his reception in heathen lands, even amongst the most barbarous Africans and Hotten- tots, we may all blush for our coldness and ingratitude. How- ever, if you have been led to the Saviour, take care to honour him in the midst of an ungodly world, and labour to make him known to all around you.]
a Hos. vi. 3.