30 WHAT KIND OF HEART

these so full of instruction, and that so |
readily impart their meaning to the soul of
the reader. :

They give us a portrait of our Saviour;—
and what a portrait! How humble, yet how
majestic ! how mild, yet how dignified ! how
simple, yet how beautiful! He is repre-
sented as full of love toward God, and to-
ward mankind; as going about doing good ;
as having a tender and kind feeling for every
human being; as healing the sick, giving
sight to the blind, and pouring the music of
sound upon the deaf ear. Love to God,
which teaches us to love all mankind, evi-
dently filled the heart of Jesus Christ ; and
his great desire seems to have been, that all
mankind should have hearts filled with the
same feeling that governed his. A good
heart, then, is one like Christ’s ; a bad heart
‘5 one that is unlike Christ’s. A good heart
is one that is habitually exercised by love to
God and charity to man; a bad heart is one
that is exercised by selfishness, covetousness,
anger, revenge, greediness, envy, suspicion,
or malice.