Once, when Lord Kenmure asked him, "What will Christ be like when He cometh?" his reply was, "_All lovely_." And this is everywhere the favourite theme with him. At times he tells of His love. "His love surroundeth and surchargeth me."[73] "If His love was not in heaven, I should be unwilling to go thither."[74] Often he checks his pen to tell of _Christ Himself_, "Welcome, welcome, sweet, sweet cross of Christ;"--then correcting his language, "Welcome, fair, lovely, _royal King, with Thine own cross_."[75] "O if I could doat as much upon _Himself_ as I do upon His love."[76] "I fear I make more of His love than of _Himself_."[77] How startling yet how true, is this remark, "I see that in communion with Christ we may make more gods than one,"[78]--meaning that we may be tempted to make the enjoyment itself our god. It was his habitual aim to pass through privileges, joys, even fellowship, to God Himself: "I have casten this work upon Christ, to get me _Himself_."[79] "I would be farther in upon Christ than at His joys; in, where love and mercy lodgeth; beside His heart."[80] "He who sitteth on the throne is His lone a sufficient heaven."[81] "Sure I am He is the far best half of heaven."[82] [73] Letter civ. [74] Letter civ. [75] Letter lxi. [76] Letter clx. [77] Letter clxxix. [78] Letter clxviii. [79] Letter clxxxvii. [80] Letter cclxxxvi. [81] Letter ccclii. [82] Letter cclxxix. In a word, such was his soul's view of the living Person, that he writes, "Holiness is not _Christ_, nor the blossoms and flowers of the tree of life, nor the tree itself."[83] He had found out the true fountain-head, and would direct all Zion's travellers thither. And let a man try this; let the Holy Spirit lead a man to this _Person_;--and surely his experience will be, "None ever came up dry from David's well." [83] Letter cccxxxvi.