So Dress And Conduct Yourself

God Often Takes A Course For Accomplishing His Purposes Directly Contrary To What Our Narrow Views Would Prescribe. He Brings A Death Upon Our Feelings, Wishes, And Prospects When He Is About To Give Us The Desire Of Our Hearts.

Thou Art Coming To A King, Large Petitions With Thee Bring, For His Grace And Power Are Such None Can Ever Ask Too Much.

God Works Powerfully, But For The Most Part Gently And Gradually.

I Compare The Troubles Which We Have To Undergo In The Course Of The Year To A Great Bundle Of Sticks, Far Too Large For Us To Lift. But God Does Not Require Us To Carry The Whole At Once. He Mercifully Unties The Bundle, And Gives Us First One Stick, Which We Are To Carry Today, And Then Another, Which We Are To Carry Tomorrow, And So On. This We Might Easily Manage, If We Would Only Take The Burden Appointed For Us Each Day; But We Choose To Increase Our Troubles By Carrying Yesterday's Stick Over Again Today, And Adding Tomorrow's Burden To Our Load, Before We Are Required To Bear It.

The Midsummer Sun Shines But Dim, The Fields Strive In Vain To Look Gay; But When I Am Happy In Him December's As Pleasant As May.