. For the best things. limb to the us set our feet a little higher every day,overcome some weakness, gain some newheight. Touched with a feeling of our infirmities.*We may not always find sympathy in humanhearts. Even those who ought to be most pa-tient with us may fail to understand us, mayprove exacting, severe, hard in judgment,harsh in blame, bitter in denunciation. But inthe love of Christ we find infinite compassion,sympathy that never fails, never wearies. Heremembers that we are dust. Only let us everbe true to him and always do our best, con-fessing our manifold failures a
. For the best things. limb to the us set our feet a little higher every day,overcome some weakness, gain some newheight. Touched with a feeling of our infirmities.*We may not always find sympathy in humanhearts. Even those who ought to be most pa-tient with us may fail to understand us, mayprove exacting, severe, hard in judgment,harsh in blame, bitter in denunciation. But inthe love of Christ we find infinite compassion,sympathy that never fails, never wearies. Heremembers that we are dust. Only let us everbe true to him and always do our best, con-fessing our manifold failures and going oncontinually to better things. [70] pmi^ t^t htmth [71] Why fret thee, things beyond thy small controlfBut do thy part, and thou shalt seeHeaven unit have charge of them and thou the seed, and wait in peaceThe Lord^s increase.^ Weakness never need he falseness; truth is truth in each degreeThundered—pealed by God to nature, whispered by my soul to thee, —Robert Browning. [72] CHAPTER SIX. MONG St. Pauls saluta-tions to old friends atRome is one to Persis. Sa-lute Persis the beloved, wholabored much in the is no other mentionof this woman in the New Testament. We donot know where St. Paul had known her. Herwhole biography is given in the one littlesentence. Probably she was obscure, thoughno one who works for Christ is really we live a pure, true, unselfish life,though it be in a most quiet way, we cannotknow the reach of what we are doing, how farits influence may extend, how much good itmay do, how long it may be talked labored somewhere, in some quiet wayfor Christ, nineteen hundred years ago. Herwork was not much talked about then by theneighbors, but St. Paul told its story in a[73] for ti^e ism Cl^tngjci few words and here it stays in immortalbeauty. Centuries ago a little fern-leaf grew in adeep valley. Its veins were delicate, its fibrestender. But in a little while it fell and per-ished. It seemed to h
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