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 HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF THEM. 
 
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DAILY WORBIIS. 
 
 'HERE is an old saying, *' Light 
 loads carried far, grow heavy." 
 And so it is that our little daily worries 
 often cause us much distress. Our re- 
 gular daily life is not marked by many 
 great joys or great sorrows. God sends 
 to most of us a few of these, but not 
 many. Our wise and loving father sees 
 that too many great joys would intoxicate 
 us, and make us unmindful of our work 
 and of our destiny. He sees that too 
 many great sorrows would crush us, and 
 take all the heart out of us. And so, as 
 
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 one who knows our frame, He tempers 
 our trials, and gently trains us for our 
 better home, by means of a daily discip- 
 line, wherein are many /Me joys and 
 /iWe sorrows. Now if this be so, it fol- 
 lows at once, that it is a very important 
 thing to make a right use of these little en- 
 joyments, and of these little troubles. Our 
 common-place life is intended by God to 
 be our schooling for heaven. We are to 
 learn not only from those providential 
 mercies which strike us as most remark- 
 able, not only from those heavy trials 
 which God sometimes lays upon us ; 
 but also, and perhaps chiefly, from the 
 common place events of each day. 
 
 God is teaching us daily, if we will but 
 learn. He is teaching us by means of our 
 little comforts, pleasures, and hopes. He 
 is teaching us by means of our little an- 
 noyances,vexations, disappointments, and 
 cares. And therefore I take it that the sub- 
 
 
DAILY WORRIES. 6 
 
 ject of daily worries is one well worth a 
 more serious consideration than it often 
 gets. 
 
 WORRIES: WHERE THEY COME FROM. 
 
 1. I need hardly lay it down as a 
 certain fact, that man, whether he be 
 good or bad, must have trouble in this 
 life. Man is born unto trouble. It is 
 part of his heritage here below. The 
 plague of sin has so thoroughly eaten 
 into the very frame-work of this world ; 
 it has so penetrated men's minds and 
 men's bodies ; it has so corrupted the 
 whole visible creation ; that all must be 
 taken down and dissolved before the 
 curse can be got rid of. As in the time 
 of the Levitical law, the plague of 
 leprosy broke out sometimes in the walls 
 of a house, and the house had to 
 be taken down, all the stones, and the 
 
6 DAILY WORRIES. 
 
 timber and the mortar, broken up — so 
 the plague of sin is a fretting leprosy 
 in this world of ours ; nothing short of 
 the breaking-up of the present system 
 of things can remove the evil. We live 
 in a disjointed, woe-worn world, and 
 neither sin nor trouble can be cleared 
 out of it, until Christ our Saviour re- 
 turns to make all things new. 
 
 Therefore we say, it is a necessary 
 consequence of the very nature of things 
 here, that all men should meet with 
 trouble. Sin is around, aye, and within 
 us too ; and therefore its dark shadow, 
 sorrow, can never be far off. But the 
 child of God, the believer in God's dear 
 Son, needs not to look upon the troubles 
 that surround him, as evils all against 
 him. They indeed cannot but remind 
 him of the presence of sin, and of his 
 own poor sinful nature, and, therefore, 
 they may well make him humble ; but 
 
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 these troubles are all sent to him by 
 his Fatb'T, to be be'r^^, not hindrances. 
 Just as liie curse q\ Idhcur is turned into 
 a blessing, so thiC curse is taken out of 
 troubles, and all things work together 
 for good to them that love God. But 
 more of this presently. 
 
 Now we only remark this, that owing 
 to the disordered state of things here, no 
 man can escape trouble. God has not 
 seen fit to spare even his own children, 
 whom He loves best, from this common 
 lot of all men. We have all of us our 
 " DAILY WORRIES, " little troubles and 
 annoyances which we cannot escape. A 
 man is thrown into the midst of some 
 vexing, irritating, fellow-workmen. A 
 poor mother, with her three or four little 
 ones getting into mischief, or crying 
 often for crying's sake, is almost beside 
 herself. There is a cross-grained neigh- 
 bour v/ho seems determined to be as 
 
8 DAILY WORRIES. 
 
 disobliging as possible. A child comes 
 home from school and has lost his new 
 cap. Some one has been spreading 
 false and unkind stories about. These 
 and a thousand other annoyances are 
 happening to some of us every day ; they 
 are part of that common lot which God 
 has appointed for us all. 
 
 But while it is true that little daily 
 1;roubles and worries are inseparable 
 from man's condition in this world of 
 sin and trial, it is also true that most of 
 us make very many worries for ourselves. 
 This we do in three ways : — 
 
 I. By making that a trouble which 
 
 IS NO trouble. 
 
 II. By making much of a little. 
 HI. By failing to remove, when we 
 
 CAN, the cause of ANNOYANCE. 
 
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DAILY WORRIES. 9 
 
 I . We often make a trouble for ottr selves 
 where there is none. 
 
 Some persons seem to have a propen- 
 sity for picking up everything in the 
 shape of a trouble that they can meet 
 with. They have become so accustomed 
 to a state of worry, that they seem to 
 feel out of their element if they have 
 not a goodly pack of anxieties and 
 troubles upon their back. So, if ever 
 things are smooth and worries fe\\ , they 
 must needs manufacture some vexations 
 for themselves. They will look forward 
 to to-morrow, or to the next week, and 
 fancy all kinds of calamities which may 
 come upon them— or they faficy that 
 some one feels unkindly toward them— 
 or that So-and-So laughed at them the- 
 other day— or that people generally 
 slight them, and do not pay them sO' 
 much respect as others get. But every 
 one knows how easy it is to make 
 
10 DAILY WORRIES. 
 
 trouble out of nothing — how often per- \ \ 
 sons do it. \ ^ 
 
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 11. Yei more often do we make a great 
 trouble out of a little one. 
 
 Take the following as an illustration, 
 or as an example, whichever you please. 
 A man is walking through a narrow 
 lane on a hot day ; the flies come 
 buzzing about him ; now one settles on 
 his nose, now on his chin. If the man 
 walks on quietly, only knocking off the 
 intruders as they settle on his face, he 
 gets on very well ; the annoyance is 
 trifling enough. But if he allows himself 
 to be downright teazed, and says, *'I 
 cannot bear this buzzing ; get off, and 
 leave me to myself ; '^ and if he begins 
 to lay about him right and left to drive 
 off" his tormentors, he will not have one 
 enemy the less, but he will fret and fume 
 
DAILY WORRIES, 11 
 
 himself into a very unpleasant state of 
 worry for a hot day. Now there are many 
 other little troubles, besides flies, which 
 we often make very much worse than 
 they need be ; instead of patiently and 
 quietly putting up with what we cannot 
 help, we fret against the petty annoyance, 
 and thus make it ten-fold worse. For 
 instance : — 
 
 A master has an irritating manner, 
 and yet he is a thoughtful generous man 
 in the main. Well, make up your mind 
 to take no notice of his vexing ways ; it 
 is just a pill which you must swallow, 
 and the less you think about it the 
 better. 
 
 A neighbour is noisy, and will not 
 take your friendly hint about the pleasures 
 of quiet. Well, if you cannot manage 
 to move to a better spot, make up your 
 mind to put up with the annoyance as 
 
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 it is, and not to make it all the greater 
 by constantly wor-'-iig yourself about it. 
 
 III. We sometimes make troubles for 
 ourselves^ by failing to remove^ as we are 
 able, the cause of annoyance. 
 
 It is surprising how lazy persons often 
 are, even in clearing away the things 
 which trouble them. They suffer the 
 plague of a smoky chimney, on and off, 
 for months, rather than take the trouble 
 of getting a new chimney-pot. They 
 let a door creak on its hinges, and wake 
 the child a dozen times, when a little oil 
 would set all right in a minute. Have 
 you never been kept awake some cold 
 boisterous night by the slamming of a 
 door or the creaking of a window, when 
 you have been too lazy to turn out of 
 bed and stop the noise ? 
 
 But there is a far more serious case 
 
DAILY WORRIES. IS 
 
 which ought to be mentioned here. 
 How many parents suffer not only worry 
 and vexation, but bitter distress, from 
 the ceaseless racket and disobedience 
 of their children, because they have 
 been too weak and silly, or too lazy and 
 careless, to dem.and due respect and 
 submission. Depend upon it, there are 
 many of our worries which we might 
 put a stop to altogether, if only we 
 would bestir ourselves, — if we would r/o 
 a little more, and ^^/////a/;^ a little less. 
 And before we leave this point, we may 
 say, generally, that though from the 
 very nature of things here we must meet 
 with many little daily troubles, there are 
 a great many more troubles of our own 
 making. We burden ourselves with 
 /^//c/V^ crosses, when we have no real 
 ones ; we fret and fume over a /Me 
 annoyance, until it becomes a grea^ one ; 
 or we suffer things to discomfort and 
 
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 vex US, when a little common sense and 
 diligence might put them all to rights. 
 In other words, God sends tis all many 
 little trials^ but we make very many more 
 for ourselves, 
 
 WORRIES! WHAT THEY DO FOR US. 
 
 As it is with great afflictions, so it is 
 with little worries, they do no good, but 
 rather harm, to those who are without 
 the grace of God. There is nothing in 
 pain or in sorrow, of themselves^ to bring 
 blessing to the heart of man. Too often 
 may God say to the obstinate sinner, 
 " I have smitten you with sickness, and 
 with bereavement, and with poverty ; 
 yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 
 the Lord."* Nay, more, — where the 
 heart is without the Spirit of God, troubles 
 only bring a curse with them. As the 
 
 hot sun, while it gives fresh vigour 
 * Amos iv. 8, 9, 10, 1 1* 
 
DAILY WORRIES, 15 
 
 to the living, only hastens corruption in 
 the dead, so afflictions, which God 
 means for blessing, are only a curse unto 
 those who are dead in their sins. 
 
 ! Even little daily worries tend to sour 
 
 the heart, unless within that heart God 
 
 dwells. Oh, let us all remember this 
 
 (the thought is tremendously solemn), 
 
 — if we are without the Spirit, if our 
 
 hearts have never been taught to believe 
 
 in the Son of God, and to love Him, all 
 
 that happens to us is really against us. 
 
 We are walking contrary to God, and 
 
 therefore, necessarily, God is walking 
 
 contrary to us. Sorrows, great or small, 
 
 can bring no good to us ; prosperity and 
 
 success can be no real profit to us ; for 
 
 " the curse of the Lord is in the house 
 
 of the wicked.'^ * There it ever rests, 
 
 as a dark brooding cloud, blighting 
 
 everything. We need not fear sorrow 
 
 * Prov. iii. 33. 
 
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 as a guest in our homes, if Christ \ e 
 there also. But to have no Christ 
 there, and only distress, disappointment, 
 vexation, and fear ; this is indeed a dark 
 portion. God forbid that it should be 
 ours ! 
 
 But if we are God's children by faith 
 in Jesus Christ, then are we assured that 
 our little vexations and annoyances, jui^t 
 as much as our greater trials, are heaven- 
 sent messengers to help us on our way 
 home. Each day, as I said before, is a 
 day spent in God's school. He is the 
 Teacher, and, in compassion to our 
 ignorance and weakness. He gives us line 
 upon line, precept upon precept, here a 
 little, and there a little. So that it is 
 our privilege, when once as poor lost 
 sinners we have taken ourselves and our 
 sins to Jesus the Saviour, to see in every 
 little disappointment and cross a token 
 of our Father's care, and a reminder of 
 
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 our Father's home. We are being 
 trained up into more and more of the 
 temper and mind of Christ. We are 
 learning meekness, patience, and trust- 
 fuhiess. God is sending us just the 
 medicine we need to cure us of selfishness 
 and fretfulness ; and if we quietly receive 
 it as His appointment, we shall find there 
 is not so much bitter in it as we thought. 
 
 We should, notwithstanding the daily 
 wear and tear, live a very calm, happy 
 life, if we could only look upon our 
 troubles as God's loving discipline, most 
 wisely portioned out to us, to make us 
 like the image of his Son Jesus Christ. 
 This confidence would cause *^ life's 
 dullest, dreariest walk '' to be a path of 
 peace and hope ; our common-place 
 worries would henceforth be full of 
 interest ; and we should thankfully say 
 with the Psalmist of old, '' Thy loving 
 
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 correction has made me great." * And 
 this brings us to consider — 
 
 WORRIES: HOW TO MAKE THE BEST 
 
 OF THEM. 
 
 Now we may lay it down as a general 
 rule with regard to little troubles and 
 annoyances, that we make the iesf of 
 them when we make the /east of them. 
 Nothing can be more foolish or unpro- 
 fitable than to be always thinking of and 
 examining into our worries, — looking at 
 them through magnifying glasses. It has 
 been said of crabbed and faultfinding 
 people that they carry their own faults in 
 a bag behi7id them, and their neighbours' 
 faults in a bag before^ so that the latter 
 are always kept well in sight. So it may 
 be said that many a grumbler carries his 
 mercies and comforts in a bag behind 
 
 Psalm xviii. 35. 
 
DAILY WORRIES, 19 
 
 him, while he carefully keeps all his little 
 troubles in front, so as to have them 
 always in mind. If such a grumbler 
 would only begin sometimes to count 
 up his blessings, to look at them a little 
 more closely, and to throw the bag of 
 troubles behind, what a much brighter, 
 happier, face he would show to his 
 friends ! 
 
 But, after all, the difficulty is how to do 
 what we know we ought to do. It is easy 
 to say to another, "Don't worry yourself;" 
 but when the rubs, and crosses, and 
 disappointments, come to ourselves, then 
 it is no easy thing to make the 
 best of them. Let us therefore look 
 a little more closely and seriously at the 
 question, how to make the best of our 
 daily worries. I can only attempt a few 
 simple hints. 
 
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 1 . We must seek to remember why God 
 suffers these daily troubles to befall us. 
 
 It is for this end, — that He may bring 
 to light that which He sees to be within 
 us : that He may show us to ourselves. 
 We are all very apt to think that our 
 circumstances, our peculiar position in 
 life, our various trials, ifiake us what we 
 are. There is very little truth in this. 
 These act as outward tests ; they s/ioiv 
 us what we are, what God finds within 
 us ; they bring to light the hidden secrets 
 of our hearts ; and this is one of their 
 great uses. We are very slow to believe 
 that our hearts are so foolish, and weak, 
 and sinful, as God knows them to be. 
 We give them credit for far more good 
 than they deserve, and therefore He 
 very wisely and lovingly sends us day 
 after day, tests to bring out that which is 
 in us. 
 
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 We meet with some annoyance or 
 other — it brings to hght our impatience ; 
 we are disappointed in some expecta- 
 tion — and we find that we are wanting 
 in submission ; a look, or a word touches 
 our pride; and so on. 
 
 Now, if we viewed our daily worries 
 in this liglit, how much real good should 
 we get out of them ! There would be a 
 high interest about our commonest life. 
 We should feel of each petty vexation 
 or disturbance, ^'This is only another 
 little test sent to prove me, to show me 
 what is in my heart," and so, instead of 
 daring to fret against such discipline, 
 we should humble ourselves under the 
 mighty hand of God. Surely it is meet 
 to be said unto God," *' I have borne 
 chastisement, I will not offend any more. 
 That which / see not, teach Than me : 
 if I have done iniquity, I will do so no 
 more." 
 
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 If ever we /;r/ against our troubles, 
 if shows that we have a very imperfect 
 sense of our exceeding selfishness. If 
 we remembered that God discovers in 
 us much lurking sin, — and that He is 
 daily making use of his own method for 
 detecting the sin, and bringing it under 
 our notice, in order that we may be 
 driven to seek deliverance from its curse, 
 — we should never murmur at those 
 trials which prove to us what is in our 
 hearts. David's prayer should be our 
 prayer, ^^ Search me, O God, and know 
 my heart ; try me, and know my thoughts ; 
 and see if there be any wicked way 
 in me, and lead me in the way ever- 
 lasting." ^" 
 
 Let us then seek to keep this in mind. 
 
 — Those daily troubles which try our 
 
 temper, or patience, or humility, or faith, 
 
 instead of being against us, may, by 
 
 * Psalm cxxxix, 23, 24. ^ 
 
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 God's blessing, be most useful to us. 
 They give us fresh insight into our own 
 hearts. They show us where we are 
 chiefly wanting. They warn us of our 
 weak points. We think, perhaps, some- 
 times liiat we should get on much 
 better without them ; but God knows we 
 should become proud, and self-sufficient, 
 and slothful ; and so these trials and 
 worries come day after day, to humble 
 us, and to prove us to show us that 
 which is within us. 
 
 2. Let us leant to take all our troublesy 
 little and great, at once to God. 
 
 As we receive them all from Him, so 
 let us take them all to Him. I need not 
 tell you how slow most of us are in 
 going to God, especially with our little 
 worries : they seem too insignificant to 
 pray to God about ; we should be almost 
 ashamed t;o mention them on our knees ; 
 
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 DAILY WORRIES, 
 
 and so we try to bear them alone. The 
 consequence is, we find them too heavy 
 for us. For while it is true that the very 
 heaviest trial helps us on our road if we 
 only roll it upon God, it is also true that 
 even the very lightest trouble will break 
 us down if we endeavour to bear it alone. 
 We often see persons who seem quite 
 worn out, and broken down, by the wear 
 and tear of trifles. They have had no 
 great sorrows, no crushing calamity, and 
 yet they are broken in spirit. They can 
 do nothing but complain, and fret, and 
 croak ; they are always looking on the , 
 dark side of the hedge. Now they 
 would never have fallen into this pitiable 
 condition if they had followed the Bible 
 exhortations, "Cast thy burden upon 
 the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." * 
 '' Be careful for nothing, but in everything, 
 by prayer and supplication, with thanks- 
 
 • Psalm Iv. 22. ' - •. 
 
DAILY WORRIES. 25 
 
 giving, let your request be made known 
 unto God ; and the peace of God, which 
 passeth all understanding, shall keep 
 your hearts and minds through Christ 
 Jesus." * 
 
 If God sends us the very least of our 
 worries, surely we cannot do wrong to 
 ask Him to give his blessing with the 
 least. If the trouble is not too small for 
 us to feel, it is not too small for 
 Him to bless. The fact is, we have, for 
 thp most part, a very imperfect under- 
 standing of the true nature of prayer. 
 As an illustration of what it should be, 
 let us take the letters which pass between 
 two thorough friends when they are for 
 a time absent the one from the other. 
 The one letter ^z/^j-z^/^r^ the other. The 
 gift or kindly message sent by one, is 
 acknowledged by the other. Now, if 
 God sends us anything^ whether it be a 
 
 * Phil. iv. 6, 7. 
 
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 little trial, or a little comfort, we should 
 at once acknowledge it, as from his 
 hand. We should ask Him how we 
 may best use it ; and we should watt for 
 his ans7vcr. Oh, if we thus kept up a 
 constant intercourse with our Father in 
 heaven, simply and trustingly telling 
 Him all, and asking the guidance of his 
 Holy Spirit at all times, we should know 
 the meaning of that precious promise, 
 *^ Thou will keep him in perfect p ._'":e 
 whose mind is stayed on Thee, because 
 he trusteth in Thee." ^ 
 
 3. Let us bear our little daily troubles 
 for God. 
 
 They not only come from Him ; they 
 are not only to be taken to Him ; but 
 they are to be borne for Him. He has 
 sent them for our good. We may so 
 
 ♦ I3MAH xxvi. 3 
 
 
DAILY WORRIES. 27 
 
 receive them as to bring glory unto our 
 Father who is in heaven. Every duty 
 is easy when we see in it a privilege. If 
 we keep in mind that God is putting 
 honour upon us, by permitting us to 
 show our love to Him, and our trust in 
 Him before the world, we shall rejoice 
 in those very trials and vexations which 
 afford us the opportunity of thus 
 glorifying Him. How diligently shall 
 we watch against any fretfulness, or 
 discontent, or harshness, which may 
 disgrace our profession ! How anxiously 
 shall we seek after that calm, patient, 
 unruffled temper, which ever marked 
 our Divine Master, and which, perhaps 
 more than anything else, adorns, in his 
 followers, the doctrine of God our 
 Saviour. 
 
 When we look upon our daily wor- 
 ries as opportunities for showing forth 
 the praises of our God and Saviour, then 
 
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 we have learned indeed how to make the 
 best of them. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 Seeing that we are in a world of mercy, 
 where our very troubles come to us 
 charged with messages of love, if only 
 we understand them aright, let us take 
 heed unto God's dealings with us. Amid 
 all the varied turmoil and perplexities 
 of life, God's children may hear their 
 Father's voice speaking comfortably unto 
 them. He assures them, that '*all things 
 work together for good," ^ that He is at 
 the helm ordering all things ; and that 
 all things are theirs. . 
 
 There is one manifestation of his love, 
 to which above all others He points 
 them as an unanswerable proof and as* 
 
 • Romans viii, 28. 
 
DAILY WORRIES. 29 
 
 surance of his goodness and mercy. To 
 that the Apostle Paul turns, when in ^ 
 rapture of confidence he says, " If God 
 be for us, who can be against us ? He 
 that spared not his own Son, but de- 
 livered Him up for us all, how shall He 
 not with Him also freely give us all 
 things ?'' * True, we are privileged, if we 
 are the sons of God by faith in Jesus 
 Christ, to see in every incident and 
 accident around us the love and care of 
 our Father ; and yet we are not acting 
 wisely, nor living as Christians should 
 live, if we look mainly to God's provide?!^ 
 tial mercies as proof of his goodness. 
 No, it is to the dying Son that our hearts 
 ought instinctively to turn for sure and 
 certain proof that. all God's thoughts and 
 ways are love. Strange that we should 
 ask for further sign or plainer proof! He 
 that spared not his own Son, must love 
 *RoMANs viii. 31, 32, 
 
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 us. Oh, whenever we are tempted to 
 murmur or to doubt, let us fall back at 
 once upon this, — and let us answer 
 every suggestion of the devil, every sus- 
 picion of our own hearts, with this ques- 
 tion, — " If God be for us, who can be 
 against us ?"* God 7ni(st be for us, for 
 He spared not his own Son. 
 
 But while there is God's sure word of 
 comfort for those who believe in his dear 
 Son, there is also a most solemn word 
 of warning for those who are children of 
 disobedience, and despisers of Christ. 
 You find even the little troubles of life, 
 its petty cares and disappointments 
 grievous ; how, then, can you hope to 
 bear the sorer judgments of God ? " If 
 thou hast run with the footmen, and they 
 have wearied thee, then how canst thou 
 contend with horses ? and if in the land 
 
 * Romans viii. 31. 
 
DAILY WORRIES, 31 
 
 of peace wherein thou trustedst, they 
 wearied thee, vhen how wilt thou do in 
 the swelling of Jordan ?" * If even this 
 life, where you have your best port ioru is 
 so troublesome and unsatisfactory, how 
 will you fare when God shall arise to 
 judgment ? Troubles and vexations here, 
 are, after all, but a very feeble rehearsal 
 of the indignation and wrath, the tri- 
 bulation and anguish, which shall come 
 upon the ungodly at last. 
 
 Oh then, take every little cross and 
 trouble now, as a gentle and most mer- 
 ciful warning from that God who calleth 
 you continually to repentance. Hear, 
 in the trials of every day, the voice of 
 Jesus inviting you to Himself for rest. 
 Accept the free pardon purchased by his 
 blood-sr?eddin^ Eeiievc in :G6d k^ a^oiil" * 
 reconciled Fatiier ;'» 'submit 'youi's^iveB.. 
 unto Hini ;■ ask' :the .Misia.ttce ; of; his y- 
 
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 Spirit ; seeking always his glory, and 
 serving Him duly in your vocation with 
 thankgiving. Then shall your song be : — 
 
 ** Now all my way appears 
 Steps unto Heaven, 
 All that Thou sendest ine 
 
 In mercy given ; 
 Angels to beckon me, 
 Nearer, my God to Thee, 
 Nearer to Thee." 
 
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