Joy
Illustration★★★Eestasy of, Mithridates, king of Asia, became interested in an old m’wician who had performed at a feast for him. One morn ing on awaking, the old man saw the tables in his house covered with vessels of silver and gold, a number of servants around him, who offered him rich garments, and a horse standing at the door, as it was usual among the king’s friends. He was astonished, and would fain have fled out of the house. But the servants detained him; and told him that the inheritauce of a rich man had been conferred upon him by the king, and that these were but the first-fruita of his fortune.
At last, believing the reports, he put on the purple robe, mounted the horse, and as he rode through the city, cried out, ‘All these are mine! All these are mine}” Greater treasures are the gift of Christ to every believer. Shall he not rejoice evermore ?
The point
King Mithridates showers an old magician with sudden riches; overwhelmed, the man rides through the city crying "All these are mine!"—an image of the greater joy believers should have in Christ's gifts.