506 CONCLUSION. diverging from our path, it is well. It is no offence against the law of love, if we catch, in passing, such innocent and safe delights as His bounty has scattered in our path. And if our journey have so many refreshments showered down by the hand of Divine beneficence, what shall be the delights of our home ! If the heavens grow black with clouds, and storms arise, these only serve to quicken our pace, and make us avoid digression. If sickness or accident befall us, our heart is still cheered with the thought that we are nearer home : the future supports us under the present ; a little further, say we v a little more fatigue, and we shall see the desire of our heart. If we are bent on security rather. - than amusement, the straightest and the safest way will determine our choice. Heaven is worth more sacrifices of pleasure and of profit than those to which a religious life may subject us ; though, after all, it often calls for fewer and lighter than a worldly one imposes. I2
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