Alas! since it poisoned the flowers in Eden, and turned the children of God from its fair walks, it is abroad in the world--the curse of God on sin.
There is a blessing, too, within the reach of all.

He who bore the curse, secured the blessing.

Son of God! teach us to be like thee; give us of thy spirit, that we may soften to each other the inevitable ills of life.
Prepare us for that condition to which we may aspire; for that assembly where will be united the redeemed of all the earth, where will rejoice forever in thy presence those of all ages and climes, who looked up from the shadow of the curse, to the blessing which thou didst obtain, with thy latest sigh, on Calvary!.