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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 

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Chapter 9

Rejoice In The Lord Always (Phil. 4:4)


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DIFFICULTIES will beset our path, for there are none without. It would be just as unlikely to find a person without a shadow in the sunshine as to find one individual in the world without trials and difficulties. But neither grief nor losses should be allowed to interfere with our duty to God and our neighbour. Even in the valley of the shadow of death we must not sorrow as those who have no hope. Let us, rejoicing in the mercy and trusting in the goodness of Him who doeth all things well, and changes not, build ourselves up for those important duties. Those solemn obligations, those larger responsibilities which open out to every enlightened believer's mind, through prayer and study of the one and only Book which is calculated to impart true comfort and courage to the heart, and which embraces all the heights and depth of human nature.

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This Holy Book goes down to the very roots of our bitterest needs and our darkest sorrows. It speaks in accents that are divine about the only things that are of real importance at last to all, for the Bible belongs to those elemental things, like bread and wine, like the sky and the ocean, like the kisses of little children, and tears shed at the grave side, which can never grow stale or obsolete, or out of date, because they are the common heritage of mankind. If we are guided by the counsel of God, we shall stimulate all those noble feelings and aspirations befitting those in Christ and put them to good account, and use them for the noblest and most enduring end.

Sis. A. Hopkins

 

 


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