Thomas Guthrie:

“In the blood of Christ, to wash out sin’s darkest stains,

in the grace of God to purify the foulest heart,

in peace to calm life’s roughest storms,

in hopes to cheer guilt’s darkest hour,

in a courage that defies death and descends calmly into the tomb,

in that which makes the poorest rich,

and without which the richest are poor indeed,

the gospel has treasure greater far than east or west unfold and its rewards more precious are than all the stores of gold.” (Taken from The Parables, p. 212)