Doctrine: Hope

Doctrine: Hope

Kind Providence
If we think it all through, we shall agree that it is better that futurity be hidden from our view. What little child would have the heart to begin the alphabet if, before he did so, his teacher put clearly before him all the school and college work of which the alphabet is the beginning? The poor little thing would give up at once. And so it is that Providence, kindly and gradually bringing things into our lives day by day, wiles us onward, still keeping hope and heart through the trials and cares of life. Knowledge of the future would certainly be the death-knell of hope, for why hope if we could know? Hope is a wonderful element of human happiness which is based on our ignorance of the future here on earth.