And the blessings spoken of here are not all the blessings that Jesus brought.  They are only specimens of them.  The blessings he has obtained for us are innumerable.  David says of them, “If I would declare and speak of them they are more than can be numbered.”  Ps. xl:  5.  And these blessings are not only very numerous, but very great.  Look at one or two of these blessings that Jesus, the Great Teacher, brings to us.  He says, “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.”  Jesus came to bring comfort to the mourners.  Hundreds of years before Christ came the prophet Isaiah had said of him that he would come to “comfort all that mourn.”  Is. lxi:  2.  And to show how complete this blessing would be which he was to bring, Jesus said himself—­“As one whom his mother comforteth —­so will I comfort you.”  Is. lxvi:  13.  A young girl was dying.  A friend who came in to see her said: 

“I trust you have a good hope.”

“No,” she answered, distinctly; “I am not hoping—­I am certain.  My salvation was finished on the cross.  My soul is saved.  Heaven is mine.  I am going to Jesus.”

What a great blessing it is to have comfort like that!

When Jesus was speaking to the woman of Samaria, as he sat by Jacob’s well, he compared the blessing of his grace to the water of that well.  Pointing to the well at his side, he said:  “Whosoever drinketh of this water will thirst again.  But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him, a well of water, springing up unto everlasting life.”  John iv:  13, 14.  This is one of the most beautiful illustrations of the blessing Jesus gives that ever was used.  It is a great blessing to have a well of clear, cold water in our garden, or near our door.  But, only think of having a well of water in our hearts.  Then, wherever we go, we carry that well with us.  We never have to go away from it.  No one can separate between us and the water of this well.  Other wells dry up and fail.  But this is a well that never dries up, and never fails.  This well is deep, and its water is all the time “springing up unto everlasting life.”  How happy they are in whose breasts Jesus opens this well of water!

Coleridge, the English poet, in writing to a young friend, just before his death, said: 

“Health is a great blessing; wealth, gained by honest industry, is a great blessing; it is a great blessing to have kind, faithful, loving friends and relatives, but, the greatest, and best of all blessings is to be a Christian.”

One of the most able and learned lawyers that England ever had was John Selden.  He was so famous for his learning and knowledge that he is always spoken of as “the learned Selden.”  On his deathbed he said—­“I have taken much pains to know everything that was worth knowing among men; but with all my reading and all my knowledge, nothing now remains with me to comfort me at the close of life but these precious words of St. Paul:  ’This a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners;’ to this I cling.  In this I rest.  This gives me peace, and comfort, and enables me to die happy.”