HARD TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
Hard to be a Chiistiau ! Of course it is. But, whether you will believe it. or not, it is a great deal harder not to he oue. That is to say, you have a harder time than if you were. You have at least as mapy cares and trials as if you were a Christian and as many temptations. Every sad and trying element of human life is manifested in your experience as often and aB signally as it would be if you were one of Christ's followers ; you thrust yourself inevitably upon many sharp points of evil habits which yoa might in that case escape ; and. you lack what a true Christian—however feeble and imperfect his success as yet may be—always possesses—(he consciousness that his Creator and he are no longer working at. cross purposes ; that he is in harmony with God's will and plan for him ; that omniscience and omnipotence and infinite love are occupitd in shaping his circurnstancis, so that however painful they may be to-day, they are sure to be full of bles9ing in the end. You hiay hot think thiß consciousness a very solid advantage, but if yotl bad it in the Bense that the Christian has it, you would. •^Congregationalist,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6811, 15 September 1883, Page 3 (Supplement)
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