Faith Upholds A Christian Under All Trials,

If It Were Possible For Me To Alter Any Part Of His Plan, I Could Only Spoil It.

Assurance Grows By Repeated Conflict, By Our Repeated Experimental Proof Of The Lord's Power And Goodness To Save; When We Have Been Brought Very Low And Helped, Sorely Wounded And Healed, Cast Down And Raised Again, Have Given Up All Hope, And Been Suddenly Snatched From Danger, And Placed In Safety; And When These Things Have Been Repeated To Us And In Us A Thousand Times Over, We Begin To Learn To Trust Simply To The Word And Power Of God, Beyond And Against Appearances: And This Trust, When Habitual And Strong, Bears The Name Of Assurance; For Even Assurance Has Degrees.

Though Troubles Assail And Dangers Affright, Though Friends Should All Fail And Foes All Unite; Yet One Thing Secures Us, Whatever Betide, The Scripture Assures Us, The Lord Will Provide.

All Shall Work Together For Good; Everything Is Needful That He Sends; Nothing Can Be Needful That He Withholds.

The Midsummer Sun Shines But Dim, The Fields Strive In Vain To Look Gay; But When I Am Happy In Him December's As Pleasant As May.