PRECIOUS LORD JESUS!
" Unto you who believe, He is precious." —1 Peter 2:7 [KJV] We are loved with PRECIOUS LOVE; redeemed by PRECIOUS BLOOD; comforted by PRECIOUS PROMISES; justified by PRECIOUS FAITH: yea, righteousness, holiness, heaven, we have all by union with a PRECIOUS Jesus. Surely then, "to them that believe He is precious." Say, ye sons and daughters of poverty and affliction, is not this a time when friends grow cool and desert you? But in such a season, did you find one friend who visited you in your distress—was ever saying kind things to you—ever doing all possible good for you—when in prison, he sought you out, and set you at liberty—when sick he was your physician and healed you—when naked he clothed you—when in abject poverty he made you rich—thus was always pleased when he could make you easy and happy—say, is not this a friend of ten thousand? a friend who sticketh closer than a brother? Is not such a one precious indeed? All this, and infinitely mo