I Make It A Rule Of Christian

God Works Powerfully, But For The Most Part Gently And Gradually.

There Is Many A Thing Which The World Calls Disappointment; But There Is No Such Thing In The Dictionary Of Faith. What To Others Are Disappointments Are To Believers Intimations Of The Will Of God.

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

The Christian Must Know That The Season, Measure, And Continuance Of His Sufferings Are Appointed By Infinite Wisdom, And Designed To Work For His Everlasting Good; And That Grace And Strength Shall Be Afforded Him According To His Need.

I Compare The Troubles Which We Have To Undergo In The Course Of The Year To A Great Bundle Of Sticks, Far Too Large For Us To Lift. But God Does Not Require Us To Carry The Whole At Once. He Mercifully Unties The Bundle, And Gives Us First One Stick, Which We Are To Carry Today, And Then Another, Which We Are To Carry Tomorrow, And So On. This We Might Easily Manage, If We Would Only Take The Burden Appointed For Us Each Day; But We Choose To Increase Our Troubles By Carrying Yesterday's Stick Over Again Today, And Adding Tomorrow's Burden To Our Load, Before We Are Required To Bear It.