Then, if a high intelligence wait at the couch of
our sick soul, as does faithful woman by an invalid, soon will vanish
all the clouds, soon will come a brighter vista in the journey of our
lives. We are as God has made us, weak, miserable and sinful. Let us
expect from ourselves conduct becoming a being weak, sinful and
miserable. It would seem that this is the secret of those great lives
who profit by adversity. They have charity, for they have erred. They
have hope, for it has been their true anchor, never failing. They have
withal more consistency than have we, though they have
NEVER MADE SUCH HIGH-SOUNDING REQUISITIONS
on their untried natures. Where they have stepped into the stream of
their existence in some new fording-place, they have gone with great
caution, not with an immature confidence born of naught save foolish
audacity. Their river of life is an open water before their pleasant
eyes; they prepare not for a flood in the fall, neither do they make
ready to pass over dry-shod when the waters come down in the spring.
Though they have the more mercy, they make the lesser appeals for mercy;
though they have the more strength, they pray the oftener for aid.
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