Life would be easier for us all if we could realize the presence and
actual help of Christ in all our experiences. We need to care for only
one thing--that we may be faithful always to duty, and loyal to our
Master. Then, the duller the round and the sorer the struggle, the
surer we shall ever be of Christ's smile and help. We may glory in
infirmities, because then the power of God rests upon us.
It is not ordinarily in the easy ways, in the luxurious surroundings,
in the paths of worldly honor, in the congenial lot, that the brightest
heavenly visions are seen. There have been more blessed revealings of
Christ in prisons than in palaces, in homes of poverty than in homes of
abundance, in ways of hardship than in ways of ease. We need only to
accept our task-work, our drudgery, our toil, in Christ's name, and the
glory of Christ will transfigure it and shine upon our faces.
CHAPTER IV.
THE POSSIBILITIES OF PRAYER.
"Ask and receive--'tis sweetly said;
Yet what to plead for know I not,
For wish is worsted, hope o'ersped,
And aye to thanks returns my thought.
If I would pray
I've naught to say,
But this, that God may be God still:
For time to live
So still to give,
And sweeter than my wish his will."
--DAVID A. WASSON.
We do not begin to realize the possibilities of prayer.
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