. For the best things. rate all ouraffairs, and to give its beauty to our dispo-sition ? We cannot understand the reason whythis or that suffering, sorrow or disappoint-ment comes into our life. But we do not haveto understand. God is wiser than we and wemay leave the whole matter in his hand. Thatwill give us peace. ^^ Drop thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease;Take from our souls the strain and stress,And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of thy peace,^ [56] ^imipati^r twiti^ WtaMm [57] Art thou weary, tender heart? Be glad of pain;In sorrow, sweetest things will g
. For the best things. rate all ouraffairs, and to give its beauty to our dispo-sition ? We cannot understand the reason whythis or that suffering, sorrow or disappoint-ment comes into our life. But we do not haveto understand. God is wiser than we and wemay leave the whole matter in his hand. Thatwill give us peace. ^^ Drop thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease;Take from our souls the strain and stress,And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of thy peace,^ [56] ^imipati^r twiti^ WtaMm [57] Art thou weary, tender heart? Be glad of pain;In sorrow, sweetest things will grow, All flowers in watches, and thou wilt have sunWhen clouds their perfect work have done. —Richard Watson Gilder. ^Why do we worry about the yearsThat our feet have not yet trod?Who labors with courage and trust, nor fears,Has fellowship with God. The best will come in the great * To be,^It is ours to serve and wait;And the wonderful future we soon shall see,For death is but the gate J ^ [58] CHAPTER FIVE. O truth means more to usIn the way of encourage-ment and strength thanthe assurance of Christssympathy. To sympathizeis to feel with. The Scrip-tures tell us that in heaven Jesus Christ istouched with a feeling of our infirmities. Hefeels what we are feeling. If we are suffering,the thing which troubles us touches him. Ifwe are wronged, the wrong pains him. ButChrist is touched also with a feeling of ourinfirmities. Infirmities are weaknesses. We mayhave no particular sorrow or pain, and yet wemay have infirmities. A man may not be sick,and yet he may be infirm, lacking men have no sympathy with show it no consideration. They have nopatience with those who stumble. They makeno allowance for those who do their work im-[59] perfectly. But Jesus has infinite sympathywith weakness. One of the qualifications forthe priestly office in the ancient times wasability to sympathize with the people in theirexperiences— who can bear gently with
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