I value yet more than any means of receiving the truth, the precious Savior who is the subject of it-and that in all its simplicity, receiving it as a little child; the more I desire to be a little child, and I am ever seeing more that one must be such if God speaks. It is my joy to be a little child, and to hear Him speak. I may add, that the perfection of the word, its divinity, ever develops more to my heart and understanding. 270 If it be His will a little further or a little nearer, all is far far off heaven, and all on the way thither; and heaven is near enough everywhere to make earthly distance nothing. I am, as few think, a pilgrim and stranger upon earth. I see all kinds of evil in me, great laziness and sloth among the number. I have no home-though countless mercies; on earth my home, for the home belongs to the heart, is the place of His will; for the rest, it will really be in heaven; and Montpellier, Dusseldorf, or New Zealand-what is the difference? 273