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New York
To
W. B. MACLEOD
who has learned
to
comfort others
by the comfort
wherewith he himself has been
comforted of God
blow.
Milton.
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And
is
rise.
-John Owen.
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is
that
it
The
appears
The
life.
dull
result
is
that there
doing
listless
of
the
duty.
is
only a
loses its
when
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would be some-
if
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itself.
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to
In the face
life.
difficulties that
con-
life
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sane.
the
same
life,
theory
show some
life is
we need
living,
to
can
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without having
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purpose.
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region of faith.
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come from
the
present purpose
is
We are
life.
all
was
own
difficult to
when indeed
be anything
age pessimism
is
else.
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with more knowledge than they have been
has
faith
Sometimes
this
cynical depreciation of
up
been
questioned.
Sometimes
as a
men
is
at the cruelties
mystery of
human
of
life.
it
to-day.
Or
are
Might
may
we
it
by ethical standards
to decide
justify
much
inexplicable
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it
would be
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the worth of
life,
since
bundle of sensations.
man
more than a
is
There
is
a point of
may be
that
what we
call evil is a
cosmic process
condition
human
we
is
least
learn
if
we
if
much
we
at
life.
not to be judged by
is
is
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of growth,
that
we
will
exercise faith.
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men
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who
tries
the
in
mood of
in the selfishness
or
indifference,
no
round of events.
tragic
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not to care.
it is
any
light
In
many
cases there
of the eyes to
a
facts,
shallow optimism.
enough and
fast
is
a willful shutting
we wink hard
we can make be-
If
enough,
we
will
be none
if
no pain there
we deny with
sufficient
could
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for
even
if
and such a
by that means
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steep
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seem made
to dishonour,
of
illustrations
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little
human
life
rest.
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is
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world
is
all
that
human
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to comfort
and courage
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often
of bodily needs,
physical
"creature
phrase
as
in
of the word
significance
our
comforts."
is
common
The true
to get
some-
under
It
trial
and to enable
work of
the
is
in
word
this
that
it
men
to carry
on
life
used as the
title
of this
At
of
who mourn.
same time the profoundest needs
focussed for us in some such
the
life
are
dire strait as
man may
be said not to
know
life, if
he
one
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he
loves.
our
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and
cares
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necessities.
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and
troubles
What
is
to
of
life
and
its
more
terrible certainties, to
master
fear,
to
carry
life
What
victory
source
The
of comfort
Himself,
in
faith
in
meaning
of
all
trial
is
any
unfailing
Bible
is
God
ultimate
the
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them.
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one
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religious
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men who had learned to
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contrast is most marked when we know
the world into which the new message
came, and this we can do to-day as never
a
new
comfort came
before.
The
to
such numbers in
us of the customs
common
common point
of the
early
tell
people, and
Christianity before
of the world.
people
show us the
We
hungering
it
see the
had
hold
laid
mass of the
for religion,
and with
lessness
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before the
see
them
all
manner of
in their help-
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life,
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many
and shed as
I
Taonnophris and
to
was
tears over
that
was
family.
still
there
you
is
as
my
whole
trouble.
to comfort yourselves.
Eumoiros
I did everything
and so did
fitting,
But
much grieved
as
So
I leave
Good-bye."
meant to be heart-
word
is
final
thrown
passion of
life.
When we
ing of
in
trial
is
God, we cannot
men
mean-
forget,
however, that
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the very existence of
leads
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men
human misery
God
to the denial of
them
it
seems
often
altogether.
God,
mean-
and then to
ing in
justify
God by
The
pain.
tragedy of the
great
wreck of
faith,
and
this
rinding
men
is
the ship-
the greatest
all.
How can God be possible
and permit in His world the horrors we
tragedy of
know, the
tornado,
the
deadly
pestilence,
earth
solid
rent
the
fierce
by earth-
war
scale has
the
home to
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problem
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exists
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of us
one or other of
all
in
to
later
its
it
make
the
comes to
forms
the
Into each
woven.
We have
life
is
of eye,
we
if
infinite pathos
vinced of
lurid
it
are never
of
human
we do
touched by the
To
life.
be con-
and countries.
Life
is
steeped in sorrow.
human
life, as
in the
God,
protect us
the sea
is
great."
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all
around
is little
and
failure
and
us,
if
not
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to
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know
real comfort,
know nothing
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of a burden-bearer.
streets
many
story in
windows of the
many
soul.
recalled recently a
New
"
On my
girl,
last
voyage here
and such a
at
Now,
said,
lost a little
sea in such
you
upon the waves when
you pass over that latitude ? " Of course
he willingly promised to do this. Very
early, when it was still dark, long before
any one had risen, the two stole up on
latitude.
sir, will
deck,
and
there,
beneath
the
morning
24
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stars,
To
all
of the strongest
life
The
earthly pursuits.
all
world
when we
feel
made
is
that
all
" What
life.
In such a mood
we can
ask
if
it is
worth
while
bring back
What
and
make
destiny
it
again the
old
us
What
calmly
accept
can dignify
trial is
zest
for
life.
life
duty
and
and make
of our daily
interests, the
disheartening
life
25
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of
Sometimes small
disappointments
great sorrow
are
stances
who
wound.
great
little
heavy
affliction.
ence to find
are
It
that, to
is
common
experi-
great ones.
great
trials
little
quarrel that
disappointments.
life is
The
that
it
measure
Many
up to reasonable expectations.
They
much
a revolt against
life as
Every
sympathetic observer
must be
26
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but underneath
Many wonder
if
men,
is
it is
is
and
for
such
slight
daily bread or in a
genial.
There
even
the kind of
in
it
'
life
faction.
same
for
uncon-
is
trial.
demand
It is
made with
not that
for self-denial,
should be so petty.
sacrifice could be
but
merely
is
there should be a
but that
things
work which
great
a glorious joy,
There
is
fretting cares,
same colourless
lot.
The
ment of hope.
Life has
little
to teach us if
we
are not
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tions.
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is
meaning of our
we must
great and
revise our
what
is
limitaa moral
judgment of what
small.
growth
in grace
may
be
made occasions
for
and
in
gracious
They become
the
divine
of
life.
appointment of our
part
life.
some
even
fruit
in
dreary
the
to be gathered
we
and
When we
untoward experience.
that
may be
day,
believe
God, a thing
becomes
heroic
occasion.
disappointment
when
it
is
is
sacrifice.
essential
Everything
view of
life,
28
depends
and that
on
It
our
in turn
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is
when
Chris-
it is
all
whatever sort
is
simply
all
this
of a piece,
And
faith.
need or
trial
of
God
our Father,
even
grief.
mon
in
Of
a piece with
this is the
com-
in
this, that
29
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man who
to the
turns
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lessly, as
done
is
it
from the
It is
used
bitterly or faith-
get thought, as
The
It is a true
faith,
when men
is
the fruit of
God's presence.
It
we
to
drown
thought that
all
sorrow.
It
we can do without
might be
the
com-
fort
fort
if
we
We
might do with-
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of
what we know
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be daily duty.
to
writer of Ecclesiastes
of his moods.
He saw
by death.
however higher
the animal,
intellect
man with
in faculty
and
in
life.
of
men
so
dieth
moment
careful and
as the
The
the other."
man
stoic
befalleth beasts
a wise
the only
contemplated by the
is
drawn by
it is
is
one
lesson
the lesson
dieth,
to
be
drawn
philosophy, that of a
touch in
it
" Wherefore
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perceive
&mMM
that there
is
is
man
own
He
his portion."
recommend
does not
what sources
That
and
fills
best
life.
way
it
is
The
human
life,
much with
the
common
lot
own
works.
life,
materialism of
ing to keep
form.
it
life,
is
noth-
32
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work
itself
suage grief.
If so,
it is
and strange that even the workers themselves should seek to escape
The
ness.
fact
and a sense of
futility.
of
vanity.
its
worketh
As
" What
it
brings weariness
The
writer of Ec-
hath he that
man can be
own work, to say nothing
his life.
The man who
satisfied
of
in
to
it
that
is
from
with his
satisfying
its
it
satisfied his
ward
sel
life.
Even
If that be
left, it is
in-
only a coun-
dustry
to
fill
up the
33
void.
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will
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machine.
is
need to
we
feel that
is
it
our work
accomplishing
in
We
activities
and
work
into
duty, giving
our
life
to
it
It turns
a secure motive.
He
of the
The
twin
and
false.
God,
in
The weakness
faith in
is
of thinking that
we can
simple
find
sure in sim-
source of happiness
It relates
is
seen
distasteful
when we
or
by temperament.
think
whose work
What,
for
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example, of
zzzzzznsss
man
the
struck
aside,
down
by
some time
of being
to
laid
It
is
very well to
all
wound
who
in
true that
it
staunches the
To the man
it
is
bring
some repose of
when
man
is
cut
off"
soul.
But what
from
his interests
which he found
man
is
life
activity
in
The
sick
was nothing
else
in
is
indeed to be pitied.
whatever
the
befalls
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we
say that
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content of doing
peace and
from
be taken
the road of
suffice,
life
we
something,
Somewhere on
met by some
us.
will be
calamity or weakness,
when we,
off
the
in
early, as with
midst of his
too, will
It
may be
Romanes, cut
busy
scientific
whom
or like Amiel, to
life was
meant an end of everything but
waiting, and whose pitiful cry on his
death-bed was, " I cannot work "
or it
that
it
may be
late, as
of whose
life
last
years
loss
whom
We
less
worthy ends.
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the reality of
in Christ's
hand
God
and
" Hereafter."
in the
in
a simple trust
It is like a strong
God
our
is
way of
the infallible
for
That
fort
finding comfort
and word.
The
only
God
us, there
cannot
Without
permanent comfort.
open
at
it,
we
are
faith
we can
lift
fate.
But with
and
find joy in
simply and
sweetly as service.
And
it
if,
37
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robbed of
everything
robbed of nothing
Christ
God.
in
nay,
is
we
are
hid with
comes
ness men are made
the comfort
also,
When we
strong.
are
human
by the spectacle of
must learn
that there
peace
is
is
is
peace
only to be had
misery,
we
in
and eternal
communion
THE
first
find
we
If
duty of
man
not to
is
it is
an
over the
field
great thing
laws of
is
to learn,
we
exist.
Often there
satisfaction
The
facts.
and submit
when
We
of the reason.
is
we
ways
We
contrive to live.
dealing
with
ultimate
a satis
no
live
all
there
the
to,
life
der which
of ascertained
and
but
way
enough space
is
to
in
which
to walk.
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when
it
involves mystery.
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regulated
world.
on
behalf of the
on
faith
up
swallow
in despair or
some
its
certain convictions of
the facts of
It
difficulty
it
with
oncile
ward
its
God
with
life.
presses
it
mine
if
were the only sorrow,
mine were the
only pain, the problem would not hang
does even in the individual
life.
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can some-
can sometimes
a leading hand
feel the
touch of
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can
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trust,
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to see a world in
to look
through
travailing
the
years;
know
to
that
agony
is
look
is
What
is
meaning
to
droop of a
in the
the
Is
meaning and
it
that sin
is
there any
his
is
unblunted
should
shiver
such
in
darts
unexpected
strike
and
marks.
Ig-
reprieve.
records
countless ex-
man was
paid
We
see
by the blood of multitudes.
the innocent suffer with and for the guilty
for
we
see
his ruin
we
in
we
see
folly
and
sin
a nation brought to
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cut-and-dry explanation.
begin
by
with dreadful
life
evil
example
if
Little children
disability, infected
hampered by an
blood, and
evil environ-
ment.
Is
it all
game of chance,
a blind whirl
That
it ?
to
is
make
Revolution, with
over
the
bombs shot
seething
crowd,
in
life
of the
the air
letting
them
whom
man
life
form
its
condition.
The
comfort in
this
There
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lies
rejects
dethe
44
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After-Look
gospel of despair.
dogmatist
than no reign
The
callous fatalism
at all
it
is
one
must meet
If
fairly.
God
be
all
that
is
are
the
old alternatives
God
is
not all-loving.
evil
from
not all-powerful, or
To
They
a surface
evil
He
is
a logical conclusion
men have
painted the
in darkest colours, have shown na" red in tooth and claw," have enlarged on the misery of mankind, have
described a world void of meaning and of
evils
ture
of blood, hearing
45
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but
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of pain.
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tell
us that they
God
is
to
in carrying the
war
what
If
it
be
all
God
If I
and a
life
know
fierce denial
pain, there
is little
of
miti-
What
curse.
hope
is
is
to
God
If
universe and
loving, if there be
we can
if that
call
purpose
purpose be not
no
real
The
only
46
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After-Look
in
lies
something that
will
We
it.
can
at
least
fall
welcome whatever
Of
plight.
course
if
man
is
willing to
escape
the
prating.
There
are
some important
things to say
which pessimism
the picture
is
paints.
The
first is
out of perspective.
is
know
all
is
that
im-
accumu-
The
even
and
we each
Nature
at its worst.
is
not
implacable, and
of what
is
Nor
is
she
all
is
in tooth
There
and claw.
a magic by
Even
medicates wounds.
in
scars
and
the matter
of
human
is
unfair
and untrue.
their instinct
Most men
trust
that
for
Pain
life,
but
We
factor.
it
is
this
The
picture
try to
own
lives.
evil of the
all
when we
a constant fac-
is
own
day will
it
interest.
is
due to a
^^v^safey^gg
Zhz HfUr-Look
r//<wA\\vs
Eoazsssg
sentimentalism which
count of
all
the facts.
eralizing in the
It is
mass from a
due to gen-
single experi-
Robert
Louis Stevenson,
who
suffered
much from
of monstrous
wears when
So we
suffer ourselves
air
we
see
it
in the case
'
of others.
not black but have their strange compensations j and when they draw towards their
not
is
like a
bed to
did
to
fail
declare
lie
if I
if
it
is
we
live in,
partiality.
ESS
gs==*
Zhe
After-Look
^aamss
zrazsssss:
of
life
are
The
man-made.
or selfishness or
troubles hard-
There can
shame of men.
mother of misery.
Of
to introduce a darker
course this
problem
still,
fertile
is
only
but the
Out of the
man proceed the evils
much human life a hell.
heart
of
which make so
lust
and
sands.
Men
oppress
This can
that such
at least be said
with emphasis
If
much
is
due to man's
is
open to every
feeling heart
and
to
man.
What
if^xvy^^f
Zhz
flfter-Lock
sazzangg
Eg2zsaag8a
somewhere
to us
This very
only comes
ideal
To
on the score
belief in
God
impossible,
is
makes
not to alleviate
one chance of
relief.
that
is
a benevolent and
accepting
in
we know
of pain
organism,
if
Life in
it
could
left out.
The
The
current wants.
explained
is
seems
it
life.
by
the
Martineau puts
it,
pains
part
of want
they
" Hunger,
are
play.
As
thirst,
fa-
5i
M^JMM
^wym^^i
^hc
After-Look
y^vw Aawysmuit
1
to
centives to supply
is
self-corrective,
strictly
corresponding
the
pleasures.
The
tired
animal sleeps, the thirsty drinks, the shivering creeps into shelter, the threatened
on
or stands
the pain of
going.
its
life
Further,
human
fact
that
perilous
necessary to keep
be beneficent,
of
is
if life is
life
seen to
is
worth while.
when we come
life
flies
Thus, some of
guard."
to the region
man's place
in proportion
exalted.
is
that
it
is
It
is
exalted.
He
gift
Freedom
life,
of
will
seems
and so danger
is
g^SryfrffflggS:
Zht
flfter-Look
true,
make no mourning
loss of his
moral freedom.
of his fine
of
all
right
spirit
This
is
for the
typical
a contradiction in terms.
we were
world where
clocks, and
In a mechanical
all
wound up like
we know
morals at
all,
for righteousness
possible,
life
and Huxley's
This
is
it
seems
in na-
to be said that
also has
to be true
ture
own
that
capacity for
downward
in
From man
pain."
evidently reaches
pacity lessens,
till
vanishing point
when we come
blooded types of
it
If
life.
man
it is
to the coldis
the great
because of his
S3
n^m
^^**5^Nggre^
Zhe
flfter-Look
fjMVAWmf
jjjj^waj*,
life
presupposes
dition
which makes
of
It is the
it.
very con-
sible.
contrasts
ment of
cloys
Even
life as
sentation of
life.
a garden
honey soon
diet all
all
world
all
laid
Dutch gardening,
out in
hills
pall.
and the
life all
We need
When
human
our greatest
life
for us in
structions
we
crisis
artists
reconstruct
drama or romance,
make
think only
make even a
maim
life.
They
could not
It
54.
may be
stated as a
^^SSS5^^
Zhe
flfter~Lok
canon of
f^jmB fla
z^gssasss
art that a
>>,
predetermined end
is
which
acters
must produce in the reader a sense of freedom, which means struggle and the chance
of failure. There never was a work of art
produced by
man
were
out.
kept
in
The
not only
authors
make
life,
but
What
straits
the
when man
ideal
life
should
pelled to
lavish
copies
put
hand
If
remarkable
and an
our
in
It
world, he should
ideal
Why
it is
huge chunks of
highest
art
feel
it.
com-
not
merely that
art
imaa^
Msmm
^^^^^g^^^
Zbc
After-Look
tiff, rsvwft"
script
from
they must,
teresting,
The authors
life.
if
'faWA mLa
make
only to
do
because
it
their
book
in-
human
The
faculties.
which
evil,
is
When we
human mind
have said
The
conseis
the
mains.
inevitable
of freedom
gift
all,
for ages.
we
find
is
is
easy to quote comforting
and generally cover the sore. It
It
texts,
easy to
ing
hide
language
There
sorrow.
row.
Our
the difficulty
about
the
in
sound-
philosophy
of
is
little
work.
and
Try
as
we
like,
we cannot squeeze
relpiSiiiljglll
Hf^K^-^^^^l
Zht
flfter-Look
We
all
can
on the
rational.
We
begin
often
we need
is
makes life
wrong
at the
to explain things
possible.
That
is
not
the
we
cannot explain
world,
we can
mystery of our
the
often
own
our
mystery of the
see
life.
for
Though
light
into the
This personal
own
our
experience.
^^^m
.57
mm&M
i^^zr^s^^^s^
Zhe
flftcr-Look
"
It
seems to
me
De
that love of
Profundi!,
some kind
is
amount of
ordinary
in
the world.
other explanation.
there
is
is
am
convinced that
if
cause in no other
man,
for
whom
way could
the soul of
its
Pleasure
perfection.
for the
beautiful soul."
It
is
in
themselves, or that
But
it
happens
in life to a believing
man can be
glorified,
58
<smmig
&
and sorrow
mmm
^^53^^^S2
Zhe
sanctified.
dence
is
If
over
After-Look
we
all
believe that
our
God's provi-
lives, that
God's grace
life,
as if
it
were
The
is
that life
is
which men
We
human
life,
and through
may never
God.
which
That
be met.
is
all
it is
which we have no
experience
we
to learn the
discipline should
is
built
on the
The
after-look
Take
tribulation
by
itself,
and
it
is
59
Zbe
/i
After-Look
m^A
S Ja
/VWWMtlWft
Ji
man
nature revolts.
Yet when it has
come and gone, we look back and some" No chastentimes see a track of light.
ing for the present seemeth to be joyous,
grievous
but
nevertheless
afterwards
it
To
It
judge
ing back
at the
time
we
to misjudge
is
itself.
it.
Look-
which blinded us
past
go
it
cannot be understood by
at the
which
left
us
bosom ;
from
brain
which
obscured
left
noonday
the
grouped themselves
sunset
which darkened
away some stain
at
of
life
possible
in
the
autumn
^wMsa^gr^
to stop
the pulse of
60
life
made
life after-
i^^^VS^<!k^^lM
Zh*
After-Look
end of
all
gates of a larger
soft
The
life.
pathos and
We
do
Looking
At
depths.
how
see
made
we
least
the
to play a part
training of character.
It
may be
that
meant
when
afflicted, I
kept
it.
he
went
Thy
Or it may
son of
said,
astray, but
word," or
faith,
the
"Before
Psalmist
I
at least tried to
be that
we
was
now have
keep
Zhe
After-Look
K2Z2Z3SS5SS AflWrVMI\E B
we gave up our
ing and
life.
saw
Or
meaning of
we
learned the
may
it
be that
lesson of sympathy,
will
was
to the fold
when
to devour us
is
may
It
be that pain
that the
life
law of
God which
so -that
at
least after
many
have been
Thy
afflicted, that
statutes."
which at
There
last
is
tribulation.
Welcome
The
might learn
comes with
the chastening
present look
62
its
separate
its
individual les-
is
never joyous
Zhz
/
flfter-Look
but grievous to
all
will be depends
How
seem afterwards
present
is
determined by
is
The
received.
fruit
it
will
it
how
the
that will
ent
We
operations.
about the
uses of
is
joyous, and
state
than
chastening
leave
The
how
thing depends on
sity in itself is
it is
Adver-
used.
may
The
itself.
may
lead to a
bitterness of
the
may
cancered
wound on
the
it
more grievous
life
mind.
in
rides
wreck strewing
eous selfishness.
Affliction
or proud disdain.
purify, or
it
may
it
The
up
fire
harden.
may make
the
in cold despair
63
effl^
mmm
may
The
sin.
pain of
may
mystery,
lead us to
Mere
proud heart.
may
it
suffering, unsanctified
The
blessing.
is
furnace
purify
the
God, or
in
its
stiffen
pathos and
life, its
man who
him afterwards.
rience
in a
it
Only
heart.
come through
has
the hard
has meant to
noble fashion,
it
will
have
left
beautiful
its
not, there
this
" afterwards."
To
it ;
to
on the
out
anvil, to
the
softening, the
what
lesson, the
failure
When we
cross
^z^a
that
life
purpose and
When we
suffer.
it
becomes
Everything
will
In this
are
and
even
will,
easy.
experience speaks to us of
In this mood of
a Father's heart.
we
we
bend to God's
beautiful
we
governed by
willing to learn
we
is
purpose of love,
come through
mood of
faith
We will
and
will
own
see
it
but
life
to
we
have
be the solution of
We
will
the
will
a personal solu-
life is
placed
present experience
is
we
65
will
see
it
to be
^sazz^s^
Zhz
Bftcr-Look
to
it
when
be the
the
mists
of love.
fruit
away,
and we see back over the way by which
we have come, the glory dies not, and the
grief
past.
is
one
clear
Failure
Pain looks us
wrestle with
are
way of life
one Shame
in the
is
full in
him before he
Pain
is
one.
we must
bless us.
Fail-
of
sin,
which
Shame
is
the knowledge of
God
heaven
and
well for us
if
we may look
into it."
66
ig^^^^teiama
William Blake.
i
IF
life,
human
a moral end in
there be
trial is
to
there
Perhaps that
why
is
it
The
evil.
struggle
was necessary for the high end of characWhatter, and was justified by the end.
ever will further development and growth
is
sufficiently
value.
explained
Growth
seen
is
by
its
practical
to
be
much
of character are
and strengthened.
built
up and hardened
If the world
69
is
to
man
Crial as Discipline
if life is
we
life
mere
as
It is
discipline.
of
all
and so
it
sorts,
but
far as
it
and accept
a partial explanation,
it is
goes
we
It
it.
is
should understand
not sufficient in
itself to
this point
test.
accepted by us as of
are never able
Literature
friends
is full
who
to shine.
As
account,
sort
if
of
they
test.
of stories of fair-weather
profess
unlimited
affection
when no demand
turn the cold
much
to bear any
is
a bridge
is
tested before
it is
mgmm
Sg^iO
^^
sssszz^
?>rial as Discipline
fifti ftisv
strain.
itself
All
seems
ar-
we
call
that
tribulation, pain
may be
this part,
whatever
There is
"
the
reproof
of
what the proverb calls
"
life
designed to test life, of what stuff it
other design
is
The
made.
test
them.
in
all
The same
remember then
kind
necessary, and
is
we do
in
it
fruit.
that trial of
is
it,
is
comes to
test
well to
it
scorched and
only
It is
some
designed not to
but to prove that
not break.
to believe
suffer for
g^^^^M,
7i
His sake."
It
it
meant
The
time
enough thing
a big
enough
in
When
of government.
it
grew strong
numbers and influence to be a
life
of the
it
officially.
it
without
its
these.
It
The
and hardships.
trials
early literature
had
contend
to
against
the
and
against
the
cynical
opposition
and
It
had to make
its
way
privileged
There were
monopolies
72
in
and pro-
Ws^VE^^a^N^
Crial as Discipline
r;rjj aroaiy j amu raw*
All that malice and envy and
fessions.
unofficial
and
Often persecu-
less bitter
because
it
was
local, rather
whole Empire.
Besides physical violence which often
was
their portion,
family
Ambition,
ties.
fessional,
had
would-be
enough
to
die
and
insight
The
and prosoul
of a
surely
have
the
new
it
priests raged.
else,
some stones
world can
of
historical perspective
of ages denounced
nothing
political
We
if
loss
inevitable sufferings
and
meant the
in
Christian.
to realize,
face.
It
to
faith
the
wisdom
philosophers sneered
It
was an innovation
throw
always find
at innovators.
some tender
The
place in
^^^yxsgj^^^g^
Criat &s Discipline
it
unto death.
knows something of
be true
tried to
It
always easier to go
is
with the
crowd, easier to give up the agony of conwith a sin of self and the necessity of
flict
We
know some of
and one
the hundred
temptations
lished
man
enmity a
He
Faith
is
life.
not an
It is
It
touches
strenuous
life.
74
Crial as Discipline
man who
He
of his environment.
level
is
quite
of a
test.
Even
ions,
in
which
we
thought,
admit
much of
this.
of
faith
in
The
test
test
willingness to suffer.
is
when a
test
We
is
for country.
ad-
anything
readiness to
is
of courage
of patriotism
rifice
on the stream of
float lightly
it.
make
The
sac-
Lukewarm adherence
to a party or a cause
a source of weak-
is
ness.
men of
other mould.
anything
is
When
in
throats
to
brows
seeking
to
laurels of triumph.
be
The
crowned by the
faith
worth nothing.
deep enough. Some men,
nothing
victory
is
It
which costs
does not go
as the Scottish
&MXa^&
It
scheme.
must be
tion
much
The
test
to salute a
of
all
The
practical.
man
or a
some
for
difficult
The
principle
tions
This
is
right,
even by
which
life itself
our conception
life,
the
place
more
must submit.
is
is
one to
The
higher
are
we
of this element.
we
If
are
per-
What
much
that
the tribulation
we
called
is
is
that
gold
is
Somewhere
and
76
somehow the
Somewhere
jks^M^am
^ssse^^^
rial as Discipline
and somehow
the
soil
is
faith is tried
and stings
seed
Where
by
Where
life.
is
away.
Though
this
tribulation,
all
and
we must
necessity.
its
use
Even
which
pain,
is
is
value
of
whatever
we must
tribulation.
else,
Life
accept this
is
at
least,
diers are
for battle.
soldier
some meaning.
Indeed
77
this
is
sees in
ever the
ggg ^V^vV-vT^yyyrnV^
method of the
faith.
made no
by
disciples
man
to Himself by
shadow of a cross
He
teaching.
flict,
and
The
soft promises.
athwart
lies
He
and allured no
guile,
all
His
suffering.
how He
is
be
to
said
catches men.
be
Suffering
badge of the
the
promise
this
man, "
stricken
great things he
the
must
tribe.
Damascus
blinded
and
suffer for
my
name's
sake."
stumbles
ariseth,
to
will
in
That
may
when
tribulation or
persecution
put on
it, is
There
is
more
78
rw
ssszs^ss
Crial &s Discipline
ture of
strain
The
a test.
who
will
We
see
this
who
will
further use in
try
is
it
and
stand
than that
trial
is
it,
that
fail.
not merely to
is
it
Strength
strain.
but
discipline,
deepen
fresh
and enrich
faith
not
is
merely
trial
The
is
first
rapture
not exhausted
either
Dis-
by the
of testing, but
is
itself a
means of giving
beauty.
In fact
which
we
religion itself
through
tribulation.
history of Israel
is
the process by
became more
We
see
spiritual
it
in the
fek^xnr^ssF&stfffi,
desert
the
to
Many
disciplined
who
race
into
of
patience, the
have
earthly loves
who have
seen
their
go down
the
exile.
to
faith
faith
of a
hopes
and
discipline
faith
We
love.
and
see again
rising
is
light
of God's presence.
came
when
God.
closer to
lay
look
faith
saw deeper
firm
It
is
and
into itself
learned
the
all
something for us to
we
upon
borne has
as
tribulation
hardly
to
be
we
should
fail
is
in the test
we
new
80
rial As Discipline
It
not
is
a hideous evil,
all
when he
irony
count
it
all
called
joy
on
his readers to
when they
Few
verse temptations.
into di-
fall
may be,
mould that we can
of us,
it
trials of our
most of us have sad cause to
dread being tempted much.
Our souls
and
life,
been
taught
temptation
joy
is
is
evil,
all
mony
to
the
begin
value of
with
is
that
silent for
lines
of weakness ran.
Tempta-
trial.
really
testi-
a colourless
may end
because there
either well
is
or
ill.
This
an element of mere
is
trial
81
&mm^M$>bMmimi
rial as Discipline
in
it,
When
in
it
tested
is
evil purpose.
It
is
it is
not
not done
done
it
work
a piece of
done with an
in order to
does not
fail.
sort
of finding out
who
and
stood
who
failed,
is
pain
So, temptation
is
run
it
is
acter.
rising,
falling.
It is
also training.
proving of
faith,
risks.
it is
Trial means
It is
more than a
a discipline of charthe
opportunity for
it
resisting, as
foolish
the danger of
is
got through
blasts
82
it
?rial as Discipline
through the
developed
tempered
The
strain.
the
in
fighting fibre
The
fight.
The
in the fire.
blade
is
is
capacity to rise
vides
occasion
for
also pro-
and
straining
when
the fibre
is
Temp-
is
constant
higher, the
easy way, to
mand
Only
for
desire
to
take
the
low
That
satisfaction.
environment
for
evil is admitted
is
developing moral
is
no
the
life,
sin.
The real
untoward circum-
and
If
83
gn^rty^mfi
^^^<Ng^5Fg^
Criat &s Discipline
To
ever,
we must have
the surface
conception of
life
which
sees
end to be
its
The
how-
world
and
make
true
life
is
men.
a school of discipline to
Life
nificance
denied.
is
if this
great
element of discipline be
The
doctor
who
saw the danger forbade the resort to stimulants at any cost and when the patient declared that he must surely sink, he replied,
"Then sink like a man." Many a time
in the straits what we need is bracing and
not pampering, and our
creed that
we must
give
common
way
servile
in the line
unworthy thing
it is.
There
is
always
84
Mmmgi
SgSMS
W^x^ySS^v^^^
Criat as Discipline
a^^mns
azzazzsaaa
way than
another
and
that he can
a
manly
the craven
way of escape,
man
in the
win
fight.
courage.
its
for faith
heart of hearts
it
is
often far
much when
stiff
upper
lip,
pose of his
man
It
life's discipline is
Our
and we
is
the
loves a lover,
which
life
all
to teach en-
durance.
sound,
will
man-
life
bravely.
ballad in
There
is
an old
English
rallies
Fight on,
my
men,
Sir
Andrew
said,
85
^^aBASR S SggSS^jg
rial as Discipline
nzzzaasa mwa\\\wjs?t
Often to others than
life
has in
mouth of
Dumas
a touch of nobility.
it
bowing
his old
"
I shall
my
turn comes
to
whom
he
is
per-
I shall fall
The man
if
"
pause.
soldier's
"An
not death.
moment's
homily,"
replied
D'Artagnan.
This
some
stoical
real
philosophy has
heroism
in
may
practical
produced
life.
To
it
lost, to
and
86
%^^^^^mmm&
^S^S^^^^J
rial &s Discipline
go through with
command
it,
Courage
admiration.
common
is
a great
courage of
In the matter of
effort.
and carrying on
living
duties through
its
fail-
name
for
courage
ure,
another
only
is
faithfulness.
The
the
is
roots to
review
it
it
In the great
number of
them.
Life
quality
of
The
is
judged
faithfulness
fulness
The
according to the
contained
two
gifts
in
it.
had the
as the servant
with
virtue of courage
for
its
motive
87
its
is
much
motive
is
zzzrz&ir^fz^
Criat as Discipline
r;rj;
to
so
called
great vocation.
the
root
flower.
in
God v
of
walk worthy of
to
Because of
Christian
shows
It
virtue
itself
unwearied
has
his
deeper
this
finer
endurance against
bending
also
child
his
to
and
becometh a
as
live
set
ill-doing,
but
perseverance in well-
doing.
We
should respond a
us.
It is
little
makes
more eagerly
to the heroic in
we
We
surface a view of
up.
we can
is
give
it.
We
it
enemy
88
ra^t^&
Crial as Discipline
Jnil aSa&SC > i>iy>i iVilsg
own
our
evil in
lives
is
our community
is
dream
is
quite
beyond
We
the clouds.
us,
something
in
in
our
We
again
conflict
need to be braced
to the
for
When
much
it
too
bear.
tasks.
He was only
The answer
braced
to
his
for
harder
complaint
it
shall
"
sent
89
MmMgMktmmm
*!*MS*a<gxzG*iA
"Crlal as Discipline
aazzzdmnaa
m//fssy>v'i
It
is
new
resolu-
ever so.
the
tainly the
When we
be saved."
He
us
and believe
we
be-
that
we can endure
to
the
has
come
sure
end.
Never
a soul
is
tried
above what
it
can bear.
The
and
dis-
needs
of
Nations
life.
by
inherent
and clean
in
simple in
right.
Pure
in the blood,
at
they
the
come
New
Success
is
thei
Sam
aM>i&mmM
90
mm2&t
^22Z2S^^
rial &s Discipline
V/rswv.
aggggg
son, but
The
silken tresses.
Rome
empires like
and struggle
then
rotted
at
the heart,
at a
Plutarch in
his life
how he and
his Macedonian troops became lax and flaccid amid the wealth and
riot made possible by their wonderful vic-
tories.
became
self-indulgent,
mad
most
The
carousal.
came
with
was sometimes
wine,
and
once hardy
fabric of his
died
soldiers
al-
of a
be-
dust.
It
is
of what
writ
on
is
its
open face of
XSStfflfc
rial as Discipline
The
lesson
tions.
waxing
God
is
is
The
fat
When we
all
peoples.
These
continued
abroad
home
difficult
pure
is
can
make
When
for
lives,
men
when
it
to
What
for
strength
up for weakness at
becomes increasingly
live true, honest, and
when
money
the simple
pleasures are despised and the simple virtues are dethroned and the simple duties
92
a^^oim^m^^M^
^rial as Discipline
God
are neglected,
when we
account in
all
leave
out of
politics
diplomacy, then
time to beware
we
lest
Only
That
it
is
is
at
right-
home
the unchang-
In the individual
life
desert in
doctrine, but
all
it is
our
true.
the
is
same
truth
greatest
There
lives.
It is
is
is
where
a place
It is
because
hard
it is
The
keenest
test
he has attained.
keeps him
struggle to attain
strong, but
self-sufficiency,
sloth,
soon
and a score of
into
The
shows
resistance
Pride,
of a
being
possibilities
in
success.
discontent,
emerge, kissed
Bacon
virtue
of
prosperity
93
is
" The
temperance, the
^^^^s^s^^^^z^^
rial &s Discipline
virtue of adversity
is
M^
Prosperity
fortitude.
there
discover
is
thought
which
lose
is
horseback, and
he
that
This
head
his
common enough
is
if
deserves
believe, with
to
Put a beggar on
devil
know
failure.
either corrupting a
him
We
virtue."
a success
the
horse.
We
even
adversity.
in
We
all
know men who have been spoiled by success, and men who have been made great
by failure.
God's dearest saints we have
sometimes found among His sufferers, sweet
souls
We
whose
know
is
emits
bruising
We
God
God and
adversity to curse
and
perity to forget
live.
In
fragrance.
spite
of
all
this
94
die, in
knowledge,
pros-
is
not
Crial
Discipline
aus
-
jjTij
our ideal of
eaters'
life
dream
coloured
by the
Ease, and
lotus
comfort, and
things
care, these
the end.
we
will
If
we
we
look forward to as
confess that
we have needed
we
see
all
to
our eyes to
we
all
the experiences
us
The
up and opens
life, which
much, may contain for us the
danger.
To be compassed about,
fact.
sleek
prize so
greatest
and cared
for,
every
material
blessing
our true
wind which
selves.
kills
Better
God's east
isle
of the
its
lotus.
Better
lessons of
life
Maaj^
95
jte^&
sickly
sweetness
^^^V^Sg^S^i^
Grial as Discipline
az^ssBSsa vtf*wiiivg Hb
which deprives
life
of
its
outlook
into
eternity.
We know
the arduous
To
strife,
Even
to the death.
seen in one
autumnal face.
Donne.
TRIAL
work
a
is
its
perfect
merely building up a
and
virile
There
not done
has
in
further
strong
effect
in
character.
producing
work on
the actual
after
vessel
The
completed.
needs to be
its
stone
hewn and
The marks
as
finds
it
If
building.
its
men
making of it is
from the quarry
surface smoothed,
moved.
it
its
destined
place
in the
human
lives,
them
to
fit
His world-purpose.
Character
which
and
affliction
this is
has
often
been
put.
99
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mmMM
Pw Purity
^rial
>awA\\\w&
a**a\\f.
Some of
One
life
IP)
is
stuck in
it
the
was made a
metaphor
to thresh
mon
human
It
life.
experience that
has been a
affliction
and ele-
unworthy
common
to separate the
through which
of the
desired
is
is
winnowed
passes
In
furnace
in a
The
is
judg-
likens
impure ore.
treated
metals.
it
last traces
figure
to the smelting of
rid
grain
impurities.
Another
ment
as
com-
can be used
from
vivid
last
process
refining, getting
particular
to have pure.
metal which
it
This
is
figure
SS2S^^2^
&i&l
Por Purity
common
explanations,
moral
the
Jerusalem, Isaiah
judgment
again, " I
to
and
a dirge
decay of
restore
pure
to
it
my
turn
will
spiritual
for the
state
away
all
thy alloy."
Part of the
punishment with
a
it
sin.
It
not in
is
explanation,
sufficient
lies
as
the
itself
writers
in
seem
the world so
many
instances
is
which
blind of an
we
say that
is
it
well with
God
tithe
hates
sin.
evident facts
is
does
It
of the mystery
for
not explain
that suffering
comes very
gMm^M^ggm
often to those
it,
is
we
live in
some
suffer-
some sanctions of
suffering
physical pain
is
The
law.
related to sin
is
fact
that
a safeguard, as
is
often a warning
against
disease, a
man
take
will
The
alties.
Nature makes a
note.
and hedges
view of
and enmity to
a view of the
evil.
way
governed, and by
takes
shown
may be
It
in
with pen-
it
life
is
itself
it
would often be
perity
it
in a night
&M^^
as
too surface
is
would certainly
to be judged by
grows
it
good
be an unspiritual conception of
goodness
to
life
for
if
outward pros-
as a flower
first
which
breeze
^a^o
it
so far as
it
Still,
that
we
governed
make
ment
may
legal
it
co-
in a
it
It is
an instinct
this,
and
evil.
if
the
good man.
is
sults to the
lated
could
tially
we
brings prosperity.
it
men
is
if
world
would not
It
at least
to deter
society
on
ourselves
this
regu-
is
We
basis.
be an element of retribution
There
in
our
preventive.
We
in
our punishments
punishment on a horse
stealer,
" You
may
not be stolen."
103
Ennm
mzmm
J55S
other people
faults,
it
would be a purely
selfish
failure.
scheme
The failure
that we need
ones
Even
icy.
as that
not pay to do
cient
honesty
ground
evil,
is
if facts
it
does
it
would not be a
It
suffi-
would
A man
any
by
real
principles
life is
He
within.
is
man
in
regulated
not really
righteous, until he
hand to iniquity
Even
moral
world
within
ces.
him which
although
refuses to let
the
him be moved.
fear of
on a low plane.
punishment
They
are
104
mmmsMkiMmm
^f^V^^^^JH^
&*ial For Purity
rudimentary
only
morality.
They
taken away
tree, to be
comes
The
self-sufficient.
learned to walk,
leading
The
its
plant
if
Our
laws
it
young
till
strings.
part of
when
and
tree
first,
may be
would be a
it
the
could
may have
to appeal to
some ex-
if
man
he merely refrains
from
fore
what
is
likely to
pay
best.
it
would be
as
If
we
ruled
to keep out of
a misuse of language to
i5
^^mmM^.
'cimmi
^ial fiwPurity
call
The
goodness.
it
is
own
ity to a
soul.
signed
to
drive
is
Religion
prosperity.
ternal
by
spiritualized
came
Israel learned
that goodness
faith
all
us
hard
the
was
itself
process,
until
of the furnace.
The
deepening of faith
went on, until in Christ the very cross itself was made the sign of the highest
triumph.
us
we
With
mere prudence.
call
the
upon
will
all
how
Him
itself
1
he
in well-do-
chastening
suffer
men might
of God, and
06
may be
we
see
the fruit of
zazzamss
nzzzzssaaa
God's purpose
that
to
"Those He
any means.
justifies
it
means
in sancti-
is
make
He
The
it
is
The
directed
in
to be sure that
matter of justice
we can
to us, since
it, is
is
where we
easily see
ment
The
of love.
to the
Hebrews,
writers,
faith
also the
New
Testa-
for patience
early Christians
had
all
under
trial.
The
row which
extra
is
is
due to their
the lot of
historical
107
position.
They
'^^^^^^^^zM
rial P*r Purity
if
God
loved them,
They
as all
by blind
is
men
some time
the meaning of the
strokes
fate, the
are
that
seem struck
They would
felt,
life.
has
steadfast,
ing
man
every brave
feel, as
is
first
appeal
is
man
capable,
is
to the
When we
that.
imprisonments,
asunder,
being
mented, of
who were
stoned,
destitute,
afflicted,
whom
the
1
08
world
was
sawn
tor-
not
Z2S5^^^^
TotriaX
for Purity
we might
not
The
triumphs
in the
who look
noble living.
for sim-
As
the
who endured
the cross
them
to consider
how
patiently their
Mas-
ter
against Himself.
the
that
chastisement
perfect love.
takes here
the
is
even
it
is
The
of
in
when
the
it
seems
like
chastisement of
109
haps
we gave them
the
reverence."
We
have
Per-
correction
"
which corrected
flesh
is
But
us.
in
careful to contrast, as
of an earthly parent.
too often
In the
latter case
it
is
when
there
is
the correction.
subjection
to
truly to live.
sonship
that
In God's case to be in
the Father of our spirits
It
God
is
is
should
take
them
in
profit.
may be
for while
ways
yet
it is
true that
we cannot
al-
we know
that there
no
is
such a connec-
^^^^^^^<iM
rial Pop Purity
We
tion.
there
are
vince us
and
cause
effect,
We
lation.
own
it
case of puri-
life.
discipline.
life
were
be
could
in
suffering.
if
The
ful.
are
not
trouble
into
of
St.
us much,
spiritual
Ambrose
wicked do not
righteous
is
when we
put
life
to the
The answer
question why the
suffer
and
perspective.
from
this point
toil
with the
of view a good
^^^^^s-^^^sM
^ria,l pop
Parity
one.
letic
illustrates
by the figure
this
ring.
not put
down
their
with
oil
The
in the struggle
are
ask
athletes
strife the
not
in
chance of glory.
what a man
achieve.
them
to join
in the
After
really
If he
is
aims
all, it
at
depends on
and
strives to
some of the
There will
be some things concerning which he is a
hardships of a strenuous
life.
We
know from
is
ggggpittimfi
^^22^^^
^rial for Purity
truth
in
of distress
all
forms
It
has
to
many.
a soul
We
did not
know
such,
as
" Before
until
was
the
afflicted
"
have been
Thy
ing.
Few
known
is
It is
afflicted
statutes."
rience and
cleansing
This
went
good
that I
is
it
discipline.
for
astray,"
me
that
might learn
common
expe-
penitence,
if
we had
not
been
disappointment, or trouble.
have gone on
ness, until
view our
we have
past,
We
in thoughtlessness or willful-
many
ts
mS^M^mMk
^^ss^ge^T^
<Sria1 pr
Purity
nnzzssasa sazzzrms&fa
tion,
which
is
so
much
modern
Amid
life.
the exacting nature of business and pleasure, in the pressure of our social conditions
at
which
life
goes,
man
it is
easy
Many
fret
repair.
compels.
It is difficult, says
the proverb,
In
men
much
of the
those
In the
how
higher reaches
114
mmgg^Mfemmmi
^rtal
pw Purity
assess zaszamsg
many
if
you took
beauty.
its
If the world be at
discipline
a sphere of moral
all
for spirit-
gold
tried.
is
human
life,
It
and the
refiner's furnace
a thing of high
is
mysterious meaning.
There
there
is
chaff; there
is
confined
yet
into
its
space.
effects
ashes
dross.
This
fire
are diverse
from gold
Now
fire
those in
it
is
is
;
gold there
working
in a
not diverse,
it
takes
turns chaff
away the
whom God
dwells
"5
2HSl^^^Bl!p
are
made
assurably
better in tribulation,
Even
hearts that
There
experience.
in
are blows
men
the
eternal
some wounds
means of their
There are
secret.
cept by God.
has always to be remembered,
It
ever,
that
sanctify,
trials
do
but they
make
man
how-
themselves
in
of sanctification.
not
not
Affliction
better.
by
itself
can-
God works by
many of the
as
many of
of suffering.
its
There
on the way
it
is
a kind of
and there
is
Everything depends
M^M
Si^^
is
fctty^ay^
*Cria\ For
used.
It
ing, or
works
morose
Parity
in
selfishness, or bitter
repin-
envy,
Instead of making
suffer also
for
dealing
with
Affliction
unfortunate
their
may
and cruelty.
stiffen a
If sorrow
man
is
fellows.
to sternness
it
God
and man.
We
know
highest
and
that
best
reach
often
lives
pain, but
in
That opens
itself.
the
way
or
the
Mere
callous
pain,
cruelty
unsanctiHed
117
to
the
we must
is
good
in
nameless
of asceticism,
of
selfishness.
^Mwsntrawfe
eazzcssaggg
suffers, has
no
The
value.
furnace with-
We
perfecting His
work
God
for
We
us.
Holy Cross
need
painful experience to
is
and to accept
in us,
His will
life
have to
learn
leave
to
its
as
use our
mark on
more
nothing
is
inward meaning.
than
opportunity,
lost.
"
It
may
may
any
thyself
God
virtue, to
do
Him
any advantage.
any service or
Be
careful that
never shall
return
If this
again."
if
if
He
God
con-
us to
R,M^
^^zzs^s5^
ZrisA frr Purity
alloy, then
world
Or
pline.
is
the greatest
that
is
we
rather,
to have had
it
failure in
and to have
benefits, to
it,
lost its
un-
fire
to have been
purified,
the
all
love
directed
that
to
it,
life in
we
tle
God.
Better,
however
lit-
les-
son.
We
all
can
which
virtues
tain
this painful
are
produced through
experience of
which
explains
human
is
the mystery.
life,
meaning
We
may
maim
it,
ance of
and keep
life
it
kill it,
from the
or at least
full luxuri-
'
WA
is
The
to leaves.
all
fruits
of the proc-
new
from
detachment
soul,
mit
the
are needed
all
That some
trial.
by
world,
chance of making
little
we
all
readily ad-
for
we must
If
that
may
be
tience,
humiliation.
we must
we
pray
be willing to endure
If
we
and
desire
that
pa-
create
it.
we must have
George Herbert, but the
very way in which this patience is produced is by God seeming to take the sun
take the sun out of heaven
patience,"
out
said
of heaven.
It
is
only by repeated
^m&m
Purity
larial For
-. -w
jit.
that this
trial
developed.
is
sary conditions.
No
comes
virtue
Montaigne
begins
to
his
ready-made.
us
essay
on Cruelty
"
this truth,
So
it
we
come through
which
is
said of
They
and humility.
only
so hard to bear.
If
it
could be
He learned
which He suf-
we
ravel
the
mysteries
of Providence, that
experience.
been too
We
much with
us,
121
K^g^p
is
^rial Pr Parity
higher
life
to
which we are
called, a life
God
When we
take
His design
believe
that
by love
we can
many
God
will.
into our
for us
is
life
and
dictated
all
depends on the
Everything
the alloy.
spirit
with which
let
it
we
ac-
speak to us
that
touch of the
fire
which we have
The
weight
He
felt is
the
has purposed
of the blow
is
the
the
Lord Jesus.
high results of
method of
life's
training.
It
is
faith.
common
work when he
best
It is
man
experience that a
does his
ceases to care,
when
When we make
pline,
tions of our
first
submission to the
disci-
time
does not
we
life,
we
mean
retiral
the acceptance of
all
from the
our
lot.
field,
It
but
Faith brings
the soul.
We
when we
God who
fills
When
the dark.
we make
trial
it
every
of the up-
sea.
123
We
tests,
need
the
this re-
zzzesssbs gazagsasss
inforcement of power,
tinue.
Our
selves, if
enriched.
activities
our
life
if
we
are to con-
Mere duty by
I4
&M^^
Bailey.
^;^;&5p
Sorrow and Insist
another thing we
which
STILL
helps our
explanation of the
learn,
partial
great
there can
mystery,
come
is
that
to the soul a
through
new
it
insight
into life.
Often it has only been through
some sad experience that men have been
shown much that previously was unre-
They
garded.
strength
which
learned
is
that
there
secured by a
is
is
perfected in weakness,
The
bitter
is
found
water of
This
is
when we have
we see for
been brought
can
rise.
high
we
Most
the first time how
own
nature.
It
is
often
127
Sorrow &nd
tiffi iswffcV
Insigh
rJu&A ftss
edge, and
has to do,
instrument has
the
The way
of tears
be
to
is
sharp one.
way of
often the
in-
sight.
life
ceptions
are
dimmed.
grow like
We become
Faults
soil.
we
are,
and hide
Think
we become to prove
how much in the right we always are.
We seldom face up to an honest and comour true nature from
ourselves.
what
special
plete
self-investigation.
pleaders
We
are always
our position.
Our eyes
Nothing
willing
we
is
possible
to us, until
to recognize ourselves,
mates that
men
we
we
we
are.
are
and
until
The
esti-
128
im^^Mfe^mm
5gMxS^S a*gfr
Sorrow
attd Insight
Whether we
not,
it
fact that
is
it
think
self, as
of the world.
life
well as
The
often
George
characters,
sorrow
his
"
Adam Bede
had
not
felt
slip
from him
if
It
we
loves, the
same
cries
in
our loneliness.
129
Let us
Ws^^^^^W?^
arrow
&tid Insigh
raw
us
as
ing
its
form, as
forces
all
new
insight also
which gives us
life,
saving us
Milan there
picture in
to feel
is
In a
a cherub, trying
There
is
com-
comprehend.
the
artist.
cherub,
It
It
who
is
was
a fine conception
all
of
mystery to the
been
laid
is
felt
pain.
comfort.
man
It re-
-,^^^^*^5Fg^tE
orrow and Insight
vealed a longing for exact appreciation of
the situation, and an instinct that true sym-
Such hours of
spiration to
make
real value in a
we
life
of
human
Through
life.
it
We
How
memo-
to chroniits
view of
Emperors and
now
weak and
despised and
unknown.
One
by show and
hide-bound by the
tinsel,
outward,
is
vulgarity
which
which
is
is
for-
!3i
Mmms&
t^mmx
^^^s^s^^^zM
Sorrow and
Insiglr
sakes the
for the
is
corner of
the
and
life
literature.
contemporary historians'
of their age.
spirit
Ahab
the
fail
It is
It
to
not
is
fault
alto-
reflect
the
so easy to think
Elijah
the
of a dynasty more
important
genesis of a thought.
Who
than
the
could be ex-
Rome
to
at
the
asked to give a
age, in
list
lists
materialistic a character,
and
electricity
would be of
even
if
as
railways
comes
When
to be
Mmmek
ia^am
^^S^SE^^
Sorrow Mid
Insight
nnzsssag gggsaggg
the pages
fill
went
to
trembled
and
the
man
Jesus
at
All
and
a little group
in the
of
deep dismay of
He who
but
terested
When we
which
thoughts
will
and
we
see
feelings
that
history
is
or explain
the
of the time,
the
illustrate
of the age.
It is part
of
in understanding
of the great experiences of the " cloud of
tory of
*33
fe^^xr^s^^W^
Sorrow and
witnesses," and
grow
in
of the Bible
row
the
bitter cry
of
to us.
is
The
surface optimist.
appreciation
comes down
Much
Insigb
Bible
is full
of sor-
is
con-
ment.
We
perhaps
find
an
aesthetic
We
it
is
more than
we know
literature.
ourselves admitted
and
no longer outside of
our experience and no longer above our
J
34
Mm^^^
'^m^izS
gBggggg^ggsreggg
orrow &nd
We
needs.
learn
how
Insight
is
The
the heart.
Bible
of comfort.
Luther
said
that
many of
stand
the Psalms
he had been
till
came
appreciation
Intellectual
afflicted.
was
that he had
it
way.
new
found a
He
the furnace.
but
Rutherford
experience.
similar
became precious
The
When we
experience
read
declared
Bible through
new
common
one.
him
to
is
some of the
in
straits
through
in
saints
when we
feel
the throb of
record
left
us,
the
or even
actual
situation,
petty
troubles
we
and
are
ashamed of our
sorrows.
We
feel
135
m&mm
sometimes as
fit
if
They
our case.
We can hardly
situation to ourselves.
a time
we have
trouble.
It
reason to
call for
many
help in
true
is
It is true that
grief
loathing of sin
but
we can
our
places, as
make
may be
hardly
It
lot
we
The
fact
is
is
unsealed to us.
PfflM
light
W^&a*Xga*gfrtf4%
orrow
A-tid Insight,
iit ft fflfitV
The
raWA misS
death of a father has
many a
now he can no
he realized
that
behind others,
stand
son, as
longer
must take
but
his
of
He learns something
life.
of the burden
why
face.
The death
or
a child
new
new
tenderness because
The whole
insight.
panded,
and
beauty.
Often
life
has
grown
in
gracious
this transformation
is
evi-
in
learnt
privation
is
life
a disappointment or
it
is
way
comes in the very tone of
the voice, and the whole way of looking
new
force,
of insight.
at the world.
of pain
It
In one of his
137
letters,
speak-
*g^Myss& afrfr<^
Sorrow &nd
what pain has taught him, R. L.
Stevenson says, " The rich fox-hunting
ing of
The
man
fox-hunt-
ing
squire
has
his
tell
of the
He
limitations.
unseen.
optimism of the
There
is
is
a simple easy
untroubled
life,
which
which
has nothing to
sometimes
intensely
irritating.
we have been driven beneath the surface we do not know of what we are capable both of good and of evil, and we have
Till
false
are
many
man
things a
is
is
ruffled.
The
There
shown, when
song of
moved
Wilhelm powerfully,
^^uw>^c^^^B0
orrow
&.nd Insight
The
The
hearer.
new
and
him,
in
There
roused.
claims
are depths
who have
only to those
closed
of sympathy
which are dispaid the
price.
till
is
way
the
ultimate peace
to
for
is
women
with
seemingly
everything
life.
amusements
Life
:
is
full
is
the
out of
of interests and
they find
rich
rest,
life.
They have
39
The
never
life
is
voice of
S^^^v^k^&uM
Sorrow- &nd
Insight
pleasant,
and
it
may
be very
sometimes
is
it
like
After
men
is
all,
the
great
common-
two men
really see
quality of appreciation.
place
the
to
among
difference
say that no
same scene
It
is
We are continually
alike.
As
in their fullness.
a matter of fact
we
up
faith
and sight
it
it is
futile to set
as opposites
for faith
Instead
gives insight.
is
believing,
it
would
Sight
record of a
ment, and
is
self-recording
the
fatal
optical
mistakes
are
is
the
instru-
more
^J^M^BM
i^^SSZSSSSS
orrow
a.nd Insight
of refraction of the
the eye, and
it
if
light.
we
It
not the
is
that see by
means of
we
see
We only
from
our eyes,
we
not justified
are
in
naturalist uttered
We
bush.
bird
it
in
in
the
world
without
enjoyment.
earth
If
all
our thought
of the
is
qualities,
to any
Some whose
to her beauty
K|
new
vision.
and
truth,
I41
mgg&M
Ejjgpii^lili
of
God
human
in
tragedy of
life, in
it,
selfishness,
nobility
of
soul
which
reach
which reach up
down
to hell, and
meaning
and
know how
all,
purpose.
to
heaven and
giving
Or
all
we
to
again,
There
and good
evil
evil
good,
terrible colour-blindness
If the pain of
it is
worth
^^SS2S2^^
Sorrow and
the value of
what we
Insigh
have.
We
learn to
many compensations,
It is
perous man,
who
talks loudly
and largely
judgments on the
and on
injustice
the mystery of
of the world
suffering.
The
man who
cup
often
has
which
The
he
thinks
been
shown something,
price.
lies
in
ever a
way to make
There
143
Happy Warrior
^^vv^y^^F
Sorrow &nd
Who doomed
Turns
Men
go
to
in
Insigb
company with
pain
fate
in
the
it,
they did
They were
not dream.
driven
to
their
needs.
young man
his
strength has
and
in the first
the end of
all
rejoicing in
dismay has
felt
himself
at
may
he has developed
be
calamity.
It
some
and
gifts
has
things of
than
little
little
Perhaps the
else to
show
in
the
man,
for his
cleverness in baseball,
has
There may be
new
144
joy in what
is left,
gs^gsr^gssss
Sorrow Mid
Insigb
nzassagg gzzzzgsss
learning
how
We often do not
we have
things until
till
value
losing them.
water
some unregarded
precious
We
accept
health and peace and love and service as a
how
first
come
tions have
death-beds
to
They
men
we
when
time
What
revela-
at sick-beds
and
In a
flash
tery and
tragedy
and
if
love
has
been
was
pit.
know
ever after
how good
it
a question,
The
schoolmaster.
to a
man
ever since.
whom came
The
the peremptory
sick king, to
command
to
"45
E^^m
mmaM
3gg^SAsai * Kag g *
Sorrow Mid
house
set his
in
order and
Insight]
would go
softly all
lesson
for he
^yj
of the
"
men live."
This may seem merely
Lord, by these
things
content with
we
ceased to shine
that
we become
less, that
for a
new
standard has
chiefly
of
to
life,
getting
sources
of
through
this school
life,
and
deeper to
the true
all
can
An
inscription
on a
146
Mmi&
mmim
Sorrow
of
" The
life,
Barbara
Santa
sun-dial at
reads,
&tid Insigh
light
of
in
California
is
the
the
faith."
It
of the sun.
The
gives
life,
profoundest lesson
insight
our home.
spiritual
Often
with
plenty,
is
that
which
into
in
the joy
world which
is
of work and
the
of nature
happy
its
and
art,
we
in the present.
are
content and
The
soul sleeps in
We know in
it
lusts thereof,
not live
with
from things.
We
do
^ga^y^BHP
"
Sorrow
1/
r\
a.nd Instgh
wyryawW
equilibrium
stable
slight tenure
we
of
life,
3SS
1T1
and on what
we
tance of things.
new
insight
becomes
" What
shall
we
Enobarbus
do,
when
Csesar
is
is
Enobarbus
solemnly,
replies
must be,
its fatal
it
doing which
is
now
the soul's
out
eyes.
which opens
life, its
purpose.
lost
opportunities,
clearer light
are
its
unfulfilled
seen
from another
148
mamma
^szmji
^iSsr^ja
w^yfr-re^^^
Sorrow
a.nd Insight
Once and
we see from
when no crosslights of time come in to confuse.
It may
be an illness, when we are carried down to
standpoint.
again
life,
moment
some time we
and are
set for a
may
be
we
loved
drift
sea.
lives
bereavement, when
the
future
chance.
We
if
have
only
we
at least
get
another
been brought
that
we
and
will.
all
life
This
hard experience,
Charles
Lamb
wrote of a great
" She gave her heart to the Puriand her will to the Will that governs
sufferer,
fier,
149
mmm
ifeamo
i&*M!&**&*i*&vfi
Sorrow and
To
the universe."
mission
to
is
Insight
We
secret.
if it
Too
of love.
commonplace
We
to see.
often
until
we
hold things
matter of course
even
Sometimes we need
love.
as
men of
we
to be
" blinded
We
see."
graduated
lives
are
find
men,
in
this
the lives
into
Rutherford
hath taught
much of
me
in
months' imprisonment."
six
it
He
through his
In
own
Christ's
Aberdeen by
He had
new
put
insight
pain.
love
for the
God's
wonder has not kindled in
wmmzMimgmm
^^ZZZSB
^^
Sorrow ad
Insigb
it
in
we get a new
moved to make surrender.
helplessness
is
worth everything
we have
man
even the
it
worth
suffered,
price of
that a
is
the pathos of
life,
unmoved by
its
mys-
teries,
facts
When we do,
earthly joy.
sense of
weakness and
in
words we use so
pentance, sacrifice, forgiveness, love, having never once been broken by the sor-
We
must
let
inspiration to
the
new
It
life.
insight
become an
should teach us to
lightly.
It
is
a ter-
loss
rich
the
sources
from within.
If the
K-MSS^aiife^^&J
isx^^v^ii&^^vM
Sorrow and
Insight
God
devotedly.
As sorrow
let
we must
our heart
or sickness or
we must
spiritual
God which
sees
it
to be
price to be paid
mmmL
za
For
life,
with all
it yields
How
love
love,
is.
Browning.
AS
we have
turned
our subject
round to the
light,
we have seen
beauty
colour
and
flash
from
is
ing
is
kin.
to
the
way
One
move
hard and
it
is
would be
noble fellowship of
consolation.
will
our problem.
here
uses
who are
we have
Some
will
see a
which
is
meaning
all
of us
one of the answers to the dark problem of human pain and sorrow. There is
it
is
155
kLK
by the sym-
it is
He
it
be compassed
to
is
compassion on
with them.
is
may have
his fellows
comprehension
In
previous chapters,
this, as in
we
are
of
The
grief.
to each with
lessons of
as life itself.
its
patience,
enlightening
sympathy
and
larger reach of
would
softening
in
all
God.
consider 'one
which may
its
own
sin, pointing
faith,
wide
comes
lesson,
creased
are as
personal
knowledge of
life
painful experience
another to in-
still
another to
disciplining us to a
In this chapter
we
of these answers,
find a response in
some
m
hearts,
^^Zg^^S^^
Sorrow amd Sympathy
'
Ifri K\\
as they look
done
for
them by the
has
sore chastening of
their lives.
We
brings
gives
true
the
divine
The
priestly
cised
by a
therefore
in a particular situation
comprehension of
it,
and so
of sympathy.
capacity
with them.
hood of man
There
is
a universal priest-
human
infirmity, the
glow of a heart that sorrows and joys beNothing will teach this so
cause it loves.
powerfully as experience.
The
unerring
who
himself has
felt
the force of
it.
Ex-
perimental
sort,
hension.
The
world
is
made
kin by a
facts.
Actual com-
irresistible
by
force
when nothing
conventionalities,
The
recognition
then
come
in a flash, a
else could.
bond
of nature's
gleam of
will
intuition.
brings sympathy
It
men
unite
though
every
it
;
and sympathy will
no written bond could do,
were attested and secured by
as
means.
legal
It
written
in
flesh,
is
for
stronger than
a
com-
signed
with
is
it
and
blood.
A man
can
in
this
foucald
that
One
them.
we
is
of the maxims of
that
we pardon
love, but
it
if
is
La Rouche-
in the
degree
we knew
more.
we
men
is
sensitiveness,
same
slights to
158
W^*re*^^^E^
Sorrow and Sympathy
So the
is fat,
perous
who
the
is
only of the
man whose
life,
who
is
fatness,
wish
and
he
is
it
who
compassed with
is
garment.
bitter
cup,
and accepts
it
pity
and gentle-
felt
of experience
"
sympathy.
He
wound."
should
breed
who never
Whatever else may be
jests at scars
sympathy ought to
Few
hearts,
we do not
if we know our own
and know how easily they become
selfish
and shut up to
row.
all
*59
aiigi
outside interests.
^y^ig!^
"^^p^jt^^
we take a
The consid-
naturally with
self-centred,
others.
Sir
We
most.
of
careful
Walter
Scott,
common
Jeanie
Deans say
" Alack
in
soon become
heedless of
self,
facts
who had
of
life,
her sore
eyes
makes
trouble,
is
not
than they
it
for
sensibility, but
some
discipline
60
The memory
men
deed so
many
it is
true.
In-
we
opposite
or sect,
is
the truth.
who have
persecuted race
whose
heart the
ous
lot.
rather
one thought.
in
History
is full
of instances
The
lesson of tol-
Working men
hardest
taskmasters
from their
Newgate
sometimes
own
class,
are
and
say
men promoted
it is
a proverb of
gentle.
that the
makes
z&wswr^^^^L
Sorrow and Symp&tby
The
does
truth
real
blows of
is
not
life
pain
Everything depends on
among men,
did not
and
the
all
show the
proud
how
as every
true priestly
were sometimes
At the
community of
and haughty.
hard
is
that
learned.
life.
We
in the easy
of the
Deuteronomy, "Love ye
therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers
in the land of Egypt "
ye know the heart
beautiful appeal of
of a stranger; ye have
felt
the bitterness
it.
162
K^aaaajs
mmmji
All
life
is
of sorrow none
get
lies
so on the surface as
one of sympathy.
this
down
to the
Through
common
basis
of
it
we
life,
the
the
way of
which
love
is
the
way of
God.
Pity and need
we have
is no caste in blood
nor caste in tears
said, everything
depends
An
effort
mw&t
163
is
needed
for
it is
mmm
To
may be
missed.
many
a time a
In
Morley's
an occa-
of Cobden there
Life
how he was
life,
devote his
life
first
of
all
led
to the corn-
on me,
in the depths
my
All that
was
of
grief, I
called
might
al-
and sun-
on earth of
my young
memory of a
sainted life
left
Mr. Cobden
called
upon me
as his friend,
imm^
^^^^^^s^^mM
Sorrow and Sympathy
Tin: 0lk.k.vjc jjjjjss. iqng
he looked up and
said,
'
There
are thou-
moment
John
been
England,
if
life
might have
came
to him.
It is
not
in error therefore
that
of
life
We
to
need
others
words to
It is
felt
that
pretend to ourselves or
there
is
any solution
in
of pain.
^^^aix^
^^^^
proverbs,
to
We
that
air
and
is
which
will
loss or grief or
tian
disappointment in a Chris-
and
spirit,
if
we
do,
is
and
in
When
of
its
peaceful fruit.
summer have
times
takes
When
the joy of
life
is
stands
for
it
This
is
God
the priesthood
himself
also
sin-bearer,
He
shares
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66
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s^vfi
This too
is
priesthood, of
to the
is
was made
salvation
He
ing.
full.
it is
for a
man
life,
So,
to die.
in
Bible,
our
He
is
infirmities.
He
is
Christies Consolatory
all
like
things
merciful
things
He
He
it
behooved
Him to be made
He might be
and
faithful
pertaining to
High
God
Priest
for
in
in
that
able
to
succour
them
that
are
Cross.
167
U/J
The
trouble with us
is
we do
that
its
not
rightful
place of preeminence.
ards of
life
are
importance before
in
we
see that
it
is first
almost
justifies
make
to
is
needed
ities
make
suggest strength.
upon
Compassion
looked
which
With some
in.
is
a strain of weakness.
but
is
it
is
not war.
It
is
magnificent,
It gives
a touch of
keeps
it
nacle of success.
To
168
wmmgj,
be too
much
ex-
zmsssss gazzzmssj
by the sufferings or misfortunes of
swayed by feelings of sorrow
cited
others, to be
or pity, to
men's
for
and troubles
infirmities
weaken oneself
to success
to be self-reliant and
is
way
to tramp
Well,
on
all
it
by success.
if
there
is
will
It
is
it.
how
it
we mean
we mean becoming
strain
is
expressed
is
is
The world's
in the
to love,
success
in
this
seen
place of
is
akin
no
is
this quality to be
real
So important
life.
the
is
false
The
akin to contempt.
human
is.
view
life,
this gentle
point of
oc-
a foot in the
depends on what
If by
see
self-
when
we
to
is
The way
in the battle.
it first,
as
so
Ruskin
169
IKMsa^
za
who makes
man.
into
mark of
the one
it
a gentle-
what others
pathy, which
is
means sym-
It
Whether
or no,
The
it is
it
at least the
mark of
a Christian.
" Inasmuch
of the
as
least
could
also
phrase
ye have done
of these."
be
summed up
He went
that
to
it
His whole
the
in
one
life
one
To
failing.
walk
to
fact
faith is that
All-powerful
if
we
way
to the
called
His footsteps.
in
of our
He
is
God
was
His followers
The
is
central
love.
The
spirit
of Jesus.
170
He
alien
spoke of
W^^y^^s^^^^^
trow and Sympathy
lira ATOKiy ? j> j iTwt*
having
compassion
the
for
He was
wants of men.
commonest
go away
sion on the
and
had compas-
multitude, the
common man
of
common
his
view
fasting lest
He
of
quality
this
From His
needs.
pity
point
not
is
down and
deep
is
the test
of character.
We
can see
must be
ask
men
how
are
to strive after
many
and
virtues
the
is
because without
more or
less
social value
of
it
crown of the
they
all
all
qualities
degenerate into
human
may have
acter,
and may
We
of strength of char-
strive to
171
&^C^%
a high ideal
The
and attainments
vices.
virtues,
possessions.
selfish
we
Compassion
and
There
so.
^^^M
^^h^i/^sk
**MfA icng
we
that
were
possible, nothing
nently gained
what we
if
are
is
perma-
is
not used
in
point
afforded by
is
compassion.
There
is
no sense
meant
in
some way
if it
To
life.
deny
this is to put
on the universe.
And
the discipline
it, if
and develop
There
and cares, so
many
straits
moral
is
not
there
in
moral
a fool's cap
is
no sense
in
are so
is
to be a place of disci-
pline
any
world as a
in this
of sympathy.
and
meaning
in
life
be
these things
172
mmm&i^mmmM
jjrii'MXivAr urn***
must be designed
cultivation of this
We
crown of
tunities
meet us
all
the virtues.
far, for
oppor-
at every turn.
lessons of
all
we
learn real
should
sympathy.
It
is
that
broad-
from those who have been in the same situation and gone through the same experience.
temper
The
is
considerate
compassionate
who knows
But
this quality
is
cate
It is a spirit
appreciation,
which grows
in thoughtful
at
expein deli-
consid-
173
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Sorrow and Sympathy
ggggg^ MWAWiSEEbi
erateness, widening out in circles
the
like
own
Master's
till
it is
on
taking
pity,
become
should
It
a quality of
component
this
life,
until
we
life,
We
of the world.
of Christ until
"
It
I
is
we
We
find
do not know
we
maze
why He
said,
and
the root of
spiration of
to
part.
tragedy in daily
until
make
cross-section
foreign
all
Church's work.
in the streets
all
To
look
at
all
the
the multitude
waves of the
sea,
it all is
lies,
to
to load the
174
Mlil^Mg^ii&i
heart with
an
burden.
intolerable
Yet,
this
is
and
religious.
former,
it is
It
is
this that
human
heaven
finds
best workers
its
a little of this
among
the
compassion
on the multitude.
The
of leaving
it
here however
lies
in the clouds, of
all this
making
of
pity.
dences
Compassion,
useless unless
work
it
is
if
it
is
true, evi-
Sympathy is
It must
action.
itself into
to preserve
leads to
some sphere of
its
freshness.
service, if
It
is
good
human
needs, but
to
be
of any
value
mark of
a Christian,
i7S
mmm^^^^>
-*
if*
it
not the
is
sort
feeling.
we may
pride ourselves
erate
touch our
own
in the streets
feeling left
sentimentalist
of the city
for the
best
The
lives.
at
home, or
work,
at
To
has to be individualized.
God
life.
that
its
natural outlet
which
is
heroism.
for instance at
home,
Mmszm
have none
whose names we
for those
left
know.
life
miserable
second-rate
hell
is
much even
to have
enough under-
times
to
mouths.
our
shut
eyes,
petition
in
Louis Stevenson's prayers written at Vais, " Blind us to the offenses of our
lima
forever."
general good-will to
kindness
prove
ness.
itself
to
none.
itself, it
all
with a particular
If compassion
is
to
many difficulties
men cannot be helped in
will not be
^SmmMz^zm
charity
as
But that
because
is
without
given
misdirected and
it is
thought,
often
is
save
to
trouble.
What we
need
is
consecration of what
upon
If we would
life as given us for service.
fulfill the law of Christ, we must stretch
are, looking
It
to-day, if
we
ress,
and
is
not register
this
we need most
can
there
progress which
is
this
of
all
is
be
itself in the
we need most
common
if
church
is
to be done, if
heaven
is
to
come
no permanent
It
work of the
the kingdom of
the
extensively
in
widen-
ing
faith of
men
not so conspicuous as
is
has sometimes
it
man
It is
when
he saves himself.
Above
to
true
The
all,
we must know
success
highest
place
Master displayed.
God,
compassion which the
" The servant of the
the kindness of
strive but
be gentle unto
all."
ambitions
the conqueror
strewn
We
who
battle-fields,
is
the
way
self-
and
to victory over
ashes
the
of
But not
who
due to those
is
show something of
something of the
way
that the
is
to true success.
By
the
ness of
pire
is
God
has
over souls
is
made
whom
the gentle-
great.
The Em-
79
j^?vr^i^&i<tM
Sorrow and Sympathy
who move
us
Men
service.
their
power
by
many
have
devious
climbed
ways
to
Christ
Is
of a
Master's
way and
in the
of the way,
life
nearer
His love
kill
same
spirit.
in us all
We
must
let
if
it
has
way
loving.
If the world
a place of discipline,
then
is
in
life
This
any
must
is
to
%mmmMhmmm4
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^^^tAi^i
Than
and smile
and be sad.
Christina
Rossettl
TO
many
past
is
the
heaviest burden of
This
their lives.
many
No
is
true even of
difficulties
match
it
through
for
faith
and
it
seems.
trials
They can
see
their
bitterness.
heavenly
Father
They
see
discipline,
learn.
ficient
They know
for
Their
it
present
the
forward
the
panoplies
them
no unworthy
suf-
of
whatever
is
strength
enough
look
trials.
their heart to
them, and in
their
in
calmly
years
and
may
hopefully
bring.
against fate.
fears,
to
They
to
Faith
They have
no nervous anxiety
183
rama^
^^^3
^^^s^x^^^g^
Site Burden f Urn Past
Tiff,
about to-morrow.
shadow has
terror for
little
them, believing
Yet
whom
they, to
of
the
future
They
are
often
past.
so
are
weighted by a
little,
shadows of dead
are hag-ridden by
days.
Sometimes
is
it
To men
certain
temperament there
to
too
much
life
live
weaken
reviewing times
in
of a
a temptation
is
that
are
of to-day.
gone,
In
memory
mon
and tender
confined
and
light.
Thus,
it is
sentiment, but
it
It
carries
com-
it is
not
past,
often a harmless
with
it
a very real
mzw^&Mktos&x^
^sssss^^^E
Che Burden, of the Pas
temptation
which
robs
life
of
its
full
power.
The
memory,
this
it
came
life, if
them with the meaning it had in the prophet's lips, " Thou
shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and
shalt
not remember thy reproach any
the promise
to
more."
Of
course, there
cannot
forget,
forget.
is
a sense in
which we
Experience
has
its
lessons
to
cover up
till
markings.
we understand
at least
There
is
the
a levity of mind, a
childish thoughtlessness,
which takes no
K^g^
MS
^gyy\vv;-y
SWBurdentf tlwPa&t
Jii ft rviMA*
It easy to forget
fS/7S/A nas
for there
is
not depth in
It
low enjoyment
in the
present,
which can
The
and rightly
so.
is
Nothing
very powerful,
will so
move
to
fail,
knees.
soft
can
and quiver.
strike
Some men
are
them
Eden of
The
soul
There
no waters of Lethe, which by drinking
cusing,
are
it,
memory of
will bring
past.
condemning.
entreating,
complete
Memory
soothed
till
forgetfulness
of the
186
it
and
does
^SS2ZS^^^
Past
moment
In a
die.
An
can awaken.
it
idle
by a wizard's wand.
before us
It recreates itself
We
may
forget
what
we
our
selves
made
their
mark upon
life
forget.
There
is
No man
is
safe
Thackeray, moralizing
Pompeii
with
excavated from
Naples Museum,
really left
is
Pompeii
the very
that
relics
at present in the
thirty
?
Deep under
187
ashes
lies
the Life
hiy^^K^^^^^^M
to
when
at school
Oh
and ex-
we
all
our
awakened
memory
conscience
repentance
self-reproach
is
is
is
only
awakened
only recollection
only self-knowledge.
We
why we
memory.
method of
roots of
To
all
life,
remember
ages,
is
probing
an appeal to
the ethical
men
to the
motive, revealing
the
188
RMXJM
is
secret things to a
mmm
h^^zz^^^&M
tU
She Burden of
man's own
astonished
Pa&t
soul,
tearing
his
Not by any
The
way of
trance of the
life,
and repentance
implies
conscience reviewing
the heart
till
world
sick,
oblivion.
is
is
for
ail
past,
bring
which
the
what
is
concerning
present
The
oneself with
the
details
of
life.
sins
and
faults
of youth have a
that will
not
be
laid.
Forgotten things
189
missmm
SB33
personal
with
individual,
responsibility,
woven
seamless,
we have
thing that
life
one loom.
at
that
Every-
It
being, and
enough
logical
and
we
to find
new
formation,
and
feeling
accumulated upon
the old
like
ganize
it
experience
have been
dust
of
obliterate,
is
there with
red sandstone.
the
it
story to
its
Acts or-
into
habits
into
character
time
which every
it
organize themselves
is
in a geo-
of thought
themselves
character
As
it.
strata
habits
;
and
The
life
heart
receives.
At the same time, men often carry needburdens which are a heritage of their
past.
These burdens are of all sorts, and
less
190
^ggggg^Kagyg;^-
what would be a
is
to
This
weight to one
light
man
why
is
commonly
so
dished
Shakespeare's
ment
comfort, are
for
remark
ironic
experience,
he
grief but
out
and sometimes so
useless
that
has
irritating.
true
is
can
to
master a
Tempera-
it."
plays
in
how
hardly they
disaster
shall
press
on
disappointment will
or
shadow
us.
cast
on
some
lives
end.
The
that
remains to the
memory of
a mistake, even of
and reappear
some minds
in sleepless nights.
sense
when
jj
is
the
real
g gg s i^ife^sjg
W.^^^^x^v^g^
%>\k Burden. of
men
griefs of
to
look
There
is
often
sible to outsiders
sad for
the Past
and
unmanly.
as
The
no evident reason.
underly-
Robertson of Brighton
is
He
reader to understand.
of
life
difficult for
had great
gifts
and used them greatly, achieved a great career with ever-widening influence,
to have everything to
his
home and
his
seemed
in
of his
life.
The
sin
and of half-sup-
lot.
It
has
that
first
ambi-
he judged
192
^f^vji^ggy^^
SpJ
WUtMJ^S&A SS/WA
imaginary happiness he would have had
the profession of his
this
is
own
any explanation
choice.
in
Whether
in Robertson's case
or not, undoubtedly
ilar
life.
closed, and
all
present
The
is
till
contemned.
path of
knowledge
wisdom
limitations,
is
surely to ac-
and to recognize
repaired and
When
remain with
stitches.
its
was
dead.
There
are
flaws.
that
fact.
193
some
some
it
There comes
is
Site Burden
the Past
<Jt
when
time
career
wise
man
realizes that a
new
is
attained.
before
it
does
begun to dwindle,
after
of
thing
his
life
at
all.
The Unjust
Steward,
when
situation
a fact of experience
cannot
more
to
beg
special a
am
ashamed."
man's work
is,
the
The
more
doors
Think
of
194
mmmM
^ywss^^
Burden of the Past
" It
&ZZZZ m\ ss
U<\\\\\\
/ il
is
Morley, "
in
success
John
human
life
which a son's
We
have
death
may, however,
even
than
We
that.
may know
which
never come
can
lost
Death
tears.
opporto us
closes
of the living.
fain
may be
It
show some of
we would
we felt but
that
the love
shut which no
is
man
can open.
all
darkened by
to carry,
is
one of the
and many a
unavailing
regrets.
life is
It
has
for
195
IK^m^s
it
could hardly be
it
George
life.
in a sentence
we can never
we gave them,
answers
we
sacred
human
we showed
to that
know."
cences
is
how
was
his angel
his wife
comforter in it
one " he exclaims, "
even
so
own my
much,
And
till
debt.
death makes
don't I continue
Fools, fools
we
is
not
The
impossible
with others
it
still
forget that
it
it
has to end
lesson of
it all
gracefully
There
are
worse
griefs
the
death
of a
missed
At
of affection.
object
the
little
more
remained
has
with
me
as the
which
saddest I
is
carried."
What
when
a house
consolations in happy
else.
every thought of
it
memory
seat
brings
is
if
nothing
empty and
shame
as well
197
^95?gg^?^^
tW
lt* Burden of
Pas
it.
all
that
it is
it.
lies in
the fact
There
The power
of Christianity
Only
so.
revelation
the
of
otherwise
death.
would
There
not
are
cease
God can
wound,
that
to bleed
till
no
The
if it be not found there.
renewed by the renewal of the soul, and
Men and women
nothing else can do it.
world
cure,
is
and of repair
It
is
if
no place of refuge
to be feared that
many
think of the
198
/m/<vsw. gznszaggma
thing
human
than
They
forgiveness.
full
They do
own.
their hearts
least,
who
Some
good news.
to the
at
oppressed
They
are
still
weakened by the
past.
old sorrow,
by the old
sin
is
utterly
to
the
turn
as theirs.
and forever.
There
back the
irrevocable
miracle to restore
has eaten.
be
It
altogether
is
no magic
no
what the canker-worm
is
years,
Many men
had never been.
it
who have emerged out of the struggle into
peace, and who are not tormented any
though
still
the
199
ga^M&^Ma
sad
feeling
what they
fine,
heart, to
many
reigns supreme in
man
mute
in
terms of an un-
it
is
true that a
new
and that
giveness of
sin.
But
open to
be lived over.
life is
The
200
for-
^aazzs^^^^
tU
Cta Burden cf
its
its
Past
shame covered
Many
as sin unsinned.
his
cost that he
a man knows to
weak where he might
that qualities in him are
is
The
is
poor
in places
where
it
rich.
Christian faith
is
a tacit
condem-
good
Paul
report.
tells
fection
past.
is
us
In the
Christian
life,
St.
are
which
are
goal."
It
before,
press
towards the
we have
seen,
zoi
wmmgt
vm
^^^gg^B^^J
SW Burden F tk Parti
^-
we
that
should
forget
everything,
the
blessed
best angels
still,
the past
some of
its
our pilgrimage.
We
perfume.
are expected to
like
sweet
remember
and victory.
The
principle
is
a simple one.
All that
race, all
that
put behind us as
we bend
to our present
The
past
must
us
at
every step.
spective,
Indulgence
self-complaining,
we
in the retro-
self-accusing
to be a temptation.
we must
not
let
God,
202
mmmM
>!
ft
Che Burden cf
There
tU
Pas
which may
One
is
when
selfish,
heed-
less
of present duty
The
grief.
in a sort
depressed
life
can make
To
dead.
and
itself
Sometimes a
mourner has
of luxury of
sacrificed
way
morbid memories
give
sentimental
to
sorrows
is
In the
great opportunity.
to
first
lose
the
shock of
comes
ening
all
It
looks as
into the
heal.
if
past
all life.
With some
it
turns
will
never
into a bitter
Which
And
Until
its
it
voice
is
echoless.
203
art^Wfrffrggg
it
darkens
it
it
the
let
cleansed windows
are
who
and
of
But there
sense.
God
see
for tears,
who
only ask to be
let
alone in their
misery.
there
and
is
need.
Fortunately
to indulge in
afford
men
drives
life
much
to duty,
all
which
scene
down
to
family
who had
lost a son.
prised to
the
see
me
do,"
to
It
was imme-
have
common
the
in
itself
In The Anti-
cannot
luxury of woe,
"
answered the
ye
fisher
204
Mm&^gt
a^S^MJ
SW Burden of tk Past
mwa n\\vt
lUU rSSV^L
gruffly,
" unless
wanted
drowned
is
you
lose a friend
wark
to our
at
We
maun
my hammer."
weakens
us, if
it is
not mak-
we must
in the
ing as hard as
If sorrow
It's
sit
forget
backward
look
love
true
God.
is
for
it
If even
but
to be
there,
sin,
the
forward.
All
found again in
shame of youth,
if
must
the
forget
gospel
serve
it.
of
freeing
This
is
forgiveness,
the
soul
it
we
without
from the
repast,
205
wmm
?ZZ^?2%?^2S?Z^
saagnsggSa
It is
sin
is
in-
We
doctrine
make
can
sin
easy
make
sin
forgiveness
it
is
of sin
fills
all
as
we
will
press towards
206
God
for
has for-
that hinders,
God
no room
God
in Christ
Seek not to penetrate into the future, neither encourage a habit of anticipating good or
trials do
we may have
prise.
evil.
Our
God often
takes us
by sur-
Fnlon.
TO
many
is
life
is
Even many
future.
may
it
perpetually
under
religious
people live
this
the sunshine
peace
ture,
which
is
theirs.
Their
is
and their
poisoned by petty
lives are
Many,
to
whom
the
are
little,
oppressed by this
are
They
God
accept the
them
its
keenest sting.
They
be-
present
under
trial
they
209
Mmmsis
know
themselves
Z?Z?i?2?r*5^?s7*!i
Iie Burden of
z^gz^^m
zzzzsssss
by their
to be upheld
tkFut
God's loving
faith in
providence.
all
It
more
but looms
large
storm-cloud that
It
and
because
terrible
it
is
vague.
form,
may
burst at
any moment.
may be an accumulation of
little
fears
of those
we love,
ous anxiety.
It
may be
a mistaken pru-
possible eventuality,
that
there
are
always loopholes
in
feels
where
laid
It
come
quickly.
particular cause,
many
Whatever be the
hearts are crushed
&mmi&$^mgmm
Che Burden
of tke Future
gzazansg
zznassssg
by
this
be a
new
thing to
them
and
life
would
if
strength be.
Often,
mood
this lack-lustre
is
only a
when
the imagination
is
unbal-
mind may be
may make a
man falter where usually he would walk
calmly and confidently.
But the mood of
tion.
Even
sometimes
anxious
source
the strongest
unstrung,
any physical
some,
has
fearfulness
in
and
who would
symptoms of
not
deepest
its
state.
It
be said to have
close
the
all
too
is
Still, it is
connection
afflicts
between the
The
state
different
of health
life.
is
to
211
mMS^M^BMm
he Burden of &~FtttweT70j
Wfi agggggggggg iu\s^
and con-
on bodily con-
ditions.
The mere
nursing
of melancholy, brooding
sort
fate,
a habit as
is
ments of
it
moment,
is
ish
know
worst
We
evil.
how
to see
To
imagine
some unknown
for
Presenti-
because
true,
only need
and
foolish
tion of evil.
before
come
evil often
even
where
if it
the
difficulties
to
is
and cower
evil
future
blow
is
fool-
come we do not
blow will
Our
fall.
do not meet us
at the
that
happens,
and
it is
the
exIt
the unexpected
future
when
surprise
as
it
we
Many
a dreaded
come up
to
it
in
day
vanishes
courage.
212
The
when we
object of
Burden ofthaFut
life
to live
is
and
we
life
by projecting ourselves
of the force of
our
is
own
a ring of
foolishness
it
much
are diverting
good
is
and there
Some of your
And
From
The
cifully veiled
we
ills
the sharpest
from our
sight
it
and even
would
still
if
be a
There
right
is
and again
true
look after
itself;
in reality.
sense in which
and
and there
it
is
let
to-morrow
is
a sense of
The
spirit
and
life,
course in which
make
and
so
The
selfish life
it
is evil.
their
is
character
the
213
life
different.
r/y^/^nasa
irfiz/rssivw
no
and
pleasure.
It
The
ent world.
one of
its
dened by
are
faith in
to-morrow
day because
The
life
it
of
life
faith is
also in
But how
fears.
life
aspects a
different the
it
two
has
has no faith
in
to-morrow.
power of an endless
the other has no horizon broader
one
lives in the
The
with
faith
the
carelessness.
believes in
God
and in
his
come.
Believing
God's
in
knows
purpose of
are
any
trials
that.
and sorrows
If
in that
is
sufficient for
214
'^Cmm^F/^Bi^^mMM
all.
he
will not be
bear.
knows
God's hands.
If
his
If they are to be
now.
If they
much
be lived
to
are
through
and storm,
He
is
and
in
commit
his
soul to
that as
lieve
God.
days,
his
He must
be-
according to the
in
them he
true
views
of
religious
life,
" Here,
therefore,
our
n(Mm&
sdzmm
^^^Z^a^^^^
Cfte Burden of tkeFut
engaged
restless
generally of so
is
men
disposition, that
scarcely
ever
fix
are always
in
the disposition
of
life,
but
There
is,
however, a
place in
the future.
which
necessary.
we are compelled
The world is a
Life
so organized that
is
it is
thought.
is
that
The
never takes
lack
for
into
account.
of ordinary prudence
many of
the evils,
is
future,
The
responsible
a social menace.
One
who
will
of the elements of
despair in our
zi6
he Burden
tkFi
of
with the tide and lives in a happy-golucky fashion from hand to mouth, without forethought, seemingly without any
drifts
on him.
means
It
that he has
no
serious-
On
man of prudence
is
He becomes
social assets.
does
The
in
a leader in inall
regions of
who
business man,
probabilities
it is
cal-
safe to prophesy,
The
be long in business.
true
likely to
what
form
In ordinary
own
life
affairs,
in
we
the
need
217
M^^^v^swf^^W^
of Ik
Ke Burden
U
II
raWA mgSdfca
rVASSI*.
morrow.
Indeed, this
training of
is
life,
of the
future.
It
is
which
is
is
only
selfishness.
Yet
there
is
of overcarefulness, which
is due to a lack of
Nothing brings so much misery
real faith.
man
to a
is
No
always calculating,
is
of disquiet.
much of
many of
are
evil.
the
all
burden
it
his
It
itself
means of
the
is
it
is
lost
living.
often positively
in
If
to-morrow,
if
and that so
Life
is
unprofitable,
is
al-
lives in a
we
give
way
anxiety over
we think of
may happen
to all the mis-
we are full of
nervous anxiety about ourselves and others,
218
SlieBtmlen oftke
'if//
of a surety
we
Care
unhappiness.
low on which
open book of
much need
counsel, "
is
brow
their
there
Be not anxious
know how
is
for the
calm
morrow.
harbouring apprehensions
most
to
is
need
eyes
The
We
is
for
Supposing the
futile.
one thing
very worst
we most
fear
we have
feared
vent
coming
its
it
;
it
from us
We
our experience of
life
it
the
features
of
the
thing
most cases
dreaded
are
when we view it in
Many of the things we fear
grossly exaggerated,
anticipation.
all
proportion.
219
Miim^&i^^^cmh
^^a^^^s?w?^
die Burden
We
spend
of the Fi
in
which would
be
sufficient
meet the
to
The man
of
oversanguine temperament
may sometimes
may
be a great blow
be disappointed and
to lose
for,
but he has at
least
The man
pation.
ious
it
temperament
is
sometimes disap-
also
some joy
fered
new
new
may
all
joy
in the relief,
be
if
there be
soon
"
spectres.
better
antici-
overanx-
of nervous
liars."
as
lost
he conjures up
In
companion than
fear.
By
is
living
lessly.
the bridge at
by living
in
all.
We
something ominous
in
every event
and
gilgl^^raHgggga
lie
forecasting
The
is
day
trouble
for every
to-morrow.
is
There
be a
a sin of fear.
is
It
it is
would only
folly if life
it
is
more than
sin.
of mind not
this
as
foolishness
His whole
fearful
state
argument
is
exercises
a wise
It is
because
cast off
is
is
The
To
The
we can
fear
God
a loving heavenly
truly
is
other fear.
God
knowledge of
the
Father.
God
our cares.
faith.
fear
to lose
all
judgment
God
and we
clusion.
men, who
It
is
feel this to
yet without
be a natural con-
God.
In
221
Old Mortality
Sir
i& Burden
of the Fui
Walter
combat
the
describes
Scott
at
as the
" And
believing nothing,"
ing," said
words.
desperate
these
fearing noth-
is
not
quite
which Scott
well
gives, as
he has
his iO
regret,
Bothwell's
boast
of
but
it
is
sufficiently
killed
coarse
his highest
all
world as he
is
grain,
man
who had
instincts,
God
might be
without hope.
we
dying
described as without
in the
in
and there
sin
of
sin
of
live
with
fearlessness.
little
It
is
possible
to
^^^s^Mb^^^m
i^^^^^U^
k Burden of tkeFi
JltirSWyV BBBBSS3SSS
thoughtless of the future, never anxious
the
for
godless
life.
which has plenty of courage and no morbidness, but which has no kinship with
this
ful
of
spirit
That
faith
grace to which
of
tone
inculcated by Jesus.
is
the
He
Christian
The
life.
only
hands of love.
in the
the
day of
we
Wherefore
is
fear
?
Even
shadow we need
in the
fear
no
dark
evil.
is
in the
Wherefore should we
evil, if
Good Shepherd
valley of the
morrow
like this
day
of
us,
true
is
"
with
as
Him who
thy
can make
it
strength be."
is
evil
is
this habit
223
it
of feardisplays
lie
want of
trust in
God, but
destroys our
it
It
with
his
afraid
It takes the
of a piece that
is
who
man
did nothing
was
that he
should say
talent
\Q
The
in the earth.
harbours
is
fear lest
done the
is
This
is
day and
mean
why
is
we
when
God
kills all
other
morrow.
It
does not
does not
mean
that
we
we
but
Our
in faith.
It
for the
best
future,
we
give up considera-
tion
form duty
his
hands of God.
that
for
in the
the fear of
It gives
fears.
rest
is
to per-
There
which we must
live
224
fM^i^g
is
a true sense in
lie
to our
the
" Not
spirit
When we
life
liot
worry about
all
have given
God, we need
to
We
that
tmow
It
can
and power
The man
of
faith,
lives for
heart
to
make
the
Nct love thy life nor hate ; but what thou liv'st
Livj well, how long or short permit to heaven.
This true courage of faith
of mind which brings peace
a heart at leisure from
sting
out of trouble.
is
;
itself.
No
the attitude
for
It
it
means
takes the
turn of affairs
225
mm^afMkm^mmt
he Burden
of the Fi
<ss\!w" zzzzs iu
j/i^i
who
fears nothing
Herein
is
to
troubles of
The
God which
of
remedy
true
This
faith.
passeth
all
is
is
the
under-
this
of
courage born of
noble
affairs
resignation
things
it
is
faith,
He
It
is
is
no turn
not open
not mere
work together
" If
all
good to them
for
I
should intend
M^M^M
Howe
If,
what then
To
God was
his refuge,
and
shadow
could
the
future
of to-morrow
As
have
down by
should he be bowed
Why
the burden
till
on
till
the last
Whether
justified
answer
by the
facts or not,
to the doubts
it is
a grand
Well,
it
is
teaching
and
assurance
of His words
life
of
fetter the
He
" Be not
speaks of
soul to earth.
It
is
which
also
will,
His
He
in the
227
gggmm
tt&Sr*W&l^&&
Burden of tKeFut
> he
&aa
rfrfrWftTTrrr^'^-
He
way
Part of the
of day.
light
The
dolorosa.
in
Him
for
future,
which
the cross
it
We
prosperity,
feet,
changeless sunshine.
in
ised
to
be kept
for
us
it
is
This
well.
shall traverse
will be all
way
way we
in
if it is
is
His
not the
mere pas-
faith,
life,
of the
powers
free to
" Why
wilt
days
"
^g^^i^^g^^g^
CheBurten
common
fied
of tkeFi
sense,
it is
it
is
The whole
to
argument
faith.
really
is
an appeal
Faith in
Christ,
God
being what
it
is
faith.
through
it
conclusion that
we must
Him we
In
centre
fear
of
faithless
To
is
life.
Why
then
God
we
should
filial
rela-
tionship with
to
with
very heart
the
lives
fear.
If
we
are
in
living
ahead in
fretful
fear about
calculating
all
chances,
it
is
not because
229
mmmm
we
are
weak
in
"
zzzzzsses zazzajssg
somewhere
faith
comes
and
round,
when
and
there
When
is
and
despondency
is
man that
son of man which
art afraid
we
Further,
of
is
no
demonstrate
it
We
shall
we
The
be
Lord
take a
belief in
of proof which
by syllogisms.
of God.
art
is
even
shall die
Who
and of the
There
"
am He
thou who
I
hover
darkness
there
fail,
God.
When
doubt
It
God.
can
must be
and purpose
of the relation
in
stands to
God.
Without
which man
230
BH55SEQ
tWFut
He Burden of
naesgaa sazzamss
in the future
we would
be without defense
of
desolations
in
the
heart.
No
the
sorrows
deepest
of
life.
Without
eternity there
without immortal
faith.
God whom
Jesus revealed.
We
can
all
all
The
mmm
03
With echoing
Dotting the
We
straits between
shoreless
mortal millions
us thrown,
watery wild,
live alone.
Matthew Arnold.
THE
why
is
explain
all
of the
region
the
That
there
is
is
why
There
a Scottish
moral
life.
no single solution to
each sep-
problem anew.
which says
proverb
which
is
servation, but
is
the problem of
life
is
cravings, there
by other
isolation
feet.
of
is
all
There is
which
life, in
life
its
human
apart, untrod
a region
a
fundamental
the
individual
235
tw^g^
gtti&J
^^
^2S5S2^
u u rv\
of the social
life,
w rs/wA muas
the depths of which can-
is
Indeed
human
in
At
first this
lives.
all
for
tion
common
is
humanity.
mutual rela-
Hu-
man
life,
we
We
lated.
is
is
not iso-
and
subtlest
There
with
the
strongest
bonds.
tion,
no cutting of the
us.
The
Christian
tie
truth,
finds
life.
is
we are
many illus-
that
situa-
which connects
The
well-
a matter of congratulation
236
^^S2Z^^^
Lonely Life
"Cite
-
for the
,j4W
HllXv&K'Mifc
whole; the
ill-doing
to us, "
man
is
The
all.
truth of
being brought
home
no
we
our fellows
We
live
tions.
we
or
will
no.
There
life
of
little
pa-
always a larger
is
which we are a
We
part.
have
no room
As
we must
for
them.
day
we do
dividuals.
not consider
Political
relationships
and
men merely
as in-
no longer of
Even
individuals.
industry
is
and
trusts,
with
is
limited
single
liability.
member
in the
&s
mmM&
?&ZV7&?*&Zg*^
Tahe Lonely Life
day, and
some
in
respects
a tendency
is
which
carries
much hope of
for the
whole
social condition.
better things
its
we
that
society,
however complex,
may
all
we may
science and
if
life
we
We speak of
of our own.
way
as a unity,
we
own
with his
being
which bears
and
common
bilities
of
human
but
at the
is
and
joys.
which
is
a lesson
our
common ties
common responsisame time we dare not
repetition
duties
own
life,
emphasized so much,
fol-
may
it
heart's bitterness,
The community
we
find that
we
forget that
but
composed of
ing environment,
are
is
individuals.
and
238
Mm^i
Mmzmi
/ liu
man
hu-
powers
of
life
intellect
conscience,
them of
how
ties
and
ties at all ?
The
solemn
of human
solitude
life
remains a
fact.
life.
own
own memories of
from trespass.
are
more
than
we
ever express.
we
think
we
our fellows,
is
We
We
Even when
in spite
up our nature to
of ourselves something
We
kept back.
are opening
239
pletely
we
life.
degree,
The
to
is
This
conscious of
human
have
can
life,
we
are
we and none
do much
We each
We
weal or woe.
for
life,
this
whether
it
other.
we can
burdens
out of self;
do
rejoice
we can
we can even
and
who
who weep
yet there
is
intruders, a limit at
human eyes
which every man must
unveil
to
there
we cannot
is
a burden
240
mmM
agsaaz saaaggggs
bear; there
is
which a
with
know, and
may
stranger
not
a joy
inter-
meddle.
This
is
We
can see
in the
it,
presence of
where we
realize
There
grief.
our
feel
own
tempt
that
deep for
there
human
is,
at-
How-
we sometimes
that
Perhaps
help.
the
only
and not
silent,
wounds
are
and
in
We can
no place
are, as
is
littleness
go too
this inher-
seen more in
life is
sorrow than
we
are in
in joy.
sympathy with
all
We
harmony
murmuring
of the
the
little
children.
are
in
241
kmmgg^^mmm.
Even
may be
like
a simple jest
The
Why
should
when
you,
if
all is
the
sun
dark within
is
any sorrow
Perhaps
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man.
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makes man's help vain.
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man
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like
us
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path, and
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