Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires.

"Cheerfulness is no sin, nor is there any grace in a solemn cst of countenance."

"Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see."

"God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually."

"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear!
It soothese his sorrows,
heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear!"