As the sun that is gazed upon makes everything else look dark and dim, so the cross darkens the false splendor of this world. As honey makes all other things seem to have no taste at all, so the cross that is seen by faith takes all the sweetness out of the pleasures of the world. Continue every day steadily looking at the cross of Christ, and you will soon say of the world, as the poet does – Its pleasures now no longer please, No more content afford; Far from my heart be joys like these, Now I have seen the Lord. As by the light of opening day The stars are all concealed; So earthly
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Poem by John Newton.
