The difficulties of life sometimes! seem insuperable, its burdens not to borne. You can make nothing Jof God in all this chaos of events that seem devoid of reason and of justice. But remember these two things, first that the menace of the mountains has presented the same kind of picture to 10,000 predeces-jeers since the days of Job, and next! that the only people who came through it with satisfaction, not to say a song, were those who trod the marrow trail of trust in God. "Stand in the ways and look: ask for the old paths" (Those old paths ave not the ways of tradition as usually supposed but the of obedience and trust). "Seek for the good way and walk therein, and ye [shall find rest unto your souls."
Tt is a sign of the times that well known novelist has been writing in a high class magazine a series of papers on "The Bible and Common Sense," and the first thought gets from the old book is that "the God of the Bible is pre-eminently God for man's use here on earth. He is the one factor on which we can count that never fails, once we have learned how to count on Him. He assumes our cares, He stills our nxleties. The universal Father is not only a help to those who trust in Him. He is behind their efforts, and takes on Himself their res-possibilities. He is an Almighty, Resource and an Infinite Peace of Mind.
I Sind myself obliged to break off fat this point, intending to resume the old trail this evening. But T can eave it at this, that, for the mastery our circumstances und the line of our character there is a trail, focussed in the Bible but also found in unexpected places, often dificult but always possible, very Jobseure but really there. It has been made by the footsteps of those ho trusted God. alt was the ey the Master wen Should not the servant tread ie st
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