If It Were Possible For Me To

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.

Christ Has Taken Our Nature Into Heaven To Represent Us; And Has Left Us On Earth, With His Nature, To Represent Him.

Faith Upholds A Christian Under All Trials, By Assuring Him That Every Painful Dispensation Is Under The Direction Of His Lord.

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

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.