Growth Is The Only Evidence Of Life.

God Has Created Me To Do Him Some Definite Service; He Has Committed Some Work To Me Which He Has Not Committed To Another. I Have My Mission.

I Will Trust Him. Whatever, Wherever I Am, I Can Never Be Thrown Away. If I Am In Sickness, My Sickness May Serve Him; In Perplexity, My Perplexity May Serve Him; If I Am In Sorrow, My Sorrow May Serve Him. My Sickness, Or Perplexity, Or Sorrow May Be Necessary Causes Of Some Great End, Which Is Quite Beyond Us. He Does Nothing In Vain.

There Are Wounds Of The Spirit Which Never Close And Are Intended In God's Mercy To Bring Us Nearer To Him, And To Prevent Us Leaving Him By Their Very Perpetuity. Such Wounds Then May Almost Be Taken As A Pledge, Or At Least As A Ground For A Humble Trust, That God Will Give Us The Great Gift Of Perseverance To The End. This Is How I Comfort Myself In My Own Great Bereavements.

And With The Morn Those Angel Faces Smile Which I Have Loved Long Since And Lost Awhile.

Faith Is The Result Of The Act Of The Will, Following Upon A Conviction That To Believe Is A Duty.