July 12

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons.—HEB. xii, 7.

Behold, we count them happy which endure.—JAMES V, II.

Trials must and will befall; But with humble faith to see Love inscribed upon them all, This is happiness to me.

WILLIAM COWPER.

Never keep a trouble half an hour on your own mind before you tell it to your Heavenly Father. As soon as the trouble comes, quick, the first thing, tell it to Him. Remember that the longer you delay telling your trouble to God, the more your peace will be impaired. The longer the frost lasts, the more likely that the pond will be frozen.

C. H. SPURGEON.

To shake off trouble we must set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat, and go and visit the poor; inquire into their wants and administer unto them; seek out the desolate and oppressed, and tell them of the consolation of religion.

JOHN HOWARD.

A great help to cheerfulness under trials is found in living just one day, one hour, one minute at a time. Why should we live again the troubles of the past. They are over. Why should we anticipate the troubles that are in the future: why cross hedges or dangerous streams till we come to them?

Another help in enduring trial is the remembrance of former deliverances. How many times the way before us has seemed to close in, and, a little way in the distance, to come to an absolute end, but when we got to that end we found only a turning and a path still leading on. We all do get through somehow. No one was ever known to stick by the way.

The Living Church.