"Let the Lord do that which is good in His right." -1 CHRON. xix. 13.
"Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in Thee." -PS. xxxiii. 22.
I CANNOT feel
That all is well, when darkening clouds conceal
The shining sun;
He lives and loves; and say, since it is so, Thy will be done.
-S. G. BROWNING
NO felt evil or defect becomes divine until it becomes inevitable; and only when resistance to it i exhausted and hope has fled, does surrender cease to be premature. The hardness of our tasks lies here; that we have to strive t grievous things of life, while hope remain, as if they were evil; and then, when the stroke has fallen, to accept them from the hand of God, and doubt not they are good. But to the loving, trusting heart all things are possible; and even this instant change, from overstrained will to sorrowful repose, from fullest resistance to complete surrender, is realized without convulsion.
-MARTINEAU
