“God so loved the world, the he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).... It is through the inestimable gift of Christ that all our blessings come. Life, health, friends, reason, happiness, are ours through the merit of Christ. O that the young and the old might realize that all comes to them through the virtue of Christ’s life and death, and acknowledge the ownership of God.... (TMK 59.3) MC VC