A mountain of transparent pearls heaped as high as heaven, is not as rich and valuable as the Bible. Worldly riches are procured with labor, kept with care, lost with grief. They are false friends farthest from us when we have most need of comfort.
But not so with the Word of God, for if we lay it up in our hearts as Mary did, the comforts thereof shall sustain us when all other comforts fail. O let nothing in all the world be dearer to you than God’s Word!