The Greater The Trial, The Sweeter The

In Order To Enjoy The Word, We Ought To Continue To Read It, And The Way To Obtain A Spirit Of Prayer, Is, To Continue Praying; For The Less We Read The Word Of God, The Less We Desire To Read It, And The Less We Pray, The Less We Desire To Pray.

Now What Is Food For The Inner Man? Not Prayer, But The Word Of God; And Here Again, Not The Simple Reading Of The Word Of God, So That It Only Passes Through Our Minds, Just As Water Passes Through A Pipe, But Considering What We Read, Pondering It Over And Applying It To Our Hearts.

My Business Is, With All My Might To Serve My Own Generation; In Doing So I Shall Best Serve The Next Generation, Should The Lord Jesus Tarry... The Longer I Live, The More I Am Enabled To Realize That I Have But One Life To Live On Earth, And That This One Life Is But A Brief Life, For Sowing, In Comparison With Eternity, For Reaping.

Through Faith In The Lord Jesus Alone Can We Obtain Forgiveness Of Our Sins, And Be At Peace With God; But, Believing In Jesus, We Become, Through This Very Faith, The Children Of God; Have God As Our Father, And May Come To Him For All The Temporal And Spiritual Blessings Which We Need.

As A Warning To Parents, I Mention That My Father Preferred Me To My Brother, Which Was Very Injurious To Both Of Us. To Me, As Tending To Produce In My Mind A Feeling Of Self-elevation; And To My Brother, By Creating In Him A Dislike Both Towards My Father And Me.