As we go on
we shall know what God meant the grief to do for us; or if not in this
world, we shall in that home of Light, where all mystery shall be
explained, and where we shall see love's lesson plain and clear in all
life's strange writing. There is no doubt that sorrow always brings us
an opportunity for blessing. Then we must remember that in this world
alone can we get the good that can come to us only through pain, for in
the life beyond death there is to be no sorrow, no tears. An old
Eastern proverb says, "Spread wide thy skirts when heaven is raining
gold." Heaven is always raining gold when we are sitting under the
shadow of the cross. We should diligently improve the opportunity, and
learn the lessons he would teach and get the blessings he would give,
for the time is short.
"But if, impatient, thou let slip thy cross,
Thou wilt not find it in this world again,
Nor in another; here, and here alone,
Is given thee to suffer for God's sake.
In other worlds we shall more perfectly
Serve him and love him, praise him, work for him,
Grow near and nearer him with all delight;
But there we shall not any more be called
To _suffer_, which is our appointment here."
[1] "Practical Religion," page 107
CHAPTER XI.
OTHER PEOPLE.
"We need--each and all--to be needed,
To feel we have something to give
Towards soothing the moan of earth's hunger;
And we know that then only we live
When we feed one another, as we have been fed
From the hand that gives body and spirit their bread.
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