The Quiet Hour.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10240, 5 June 1909, Page 5 (Supplement)

The Quiet Hour.

A GOOD: FBiESOKtIFI*IiO|iS >.

(By <Riev. A. W. Snydier.)

"Humible yourselves therefore under th« mighty hand oi' Godi that He may exalt you in duei time: caating all your care upon Him.; for He ca^eth for you"—4, Peter, rv., 6, 7. ( |'St. Peter knew, the< value of his own preeioription. It had helped him, and so he commended it to those anouijd; hiun. It is a good prescription —us good for us now m for those of St.. Peter's day. True, we do not HVe in suoh eyil times a« did those to whom, the apostle wrote, and, yci, Ist times be what they maiy, or .vrcAmfitancies erer so favouraiblet, ■ ftnr life miuat needs 'be one of more or less continual struggle, and so sometimies one of "hope . deferred that haikeith the heart sick."

Knowing that this is so, we should bear with ai cahu and sober heart alike the seeming good and the seeming ill that life miaiyi bring, knowing that there are thorns in each life's path, real hardships! to be endured, real teirpti'tions. to Eeovercoi'xe, hopes thait wi'l be 'illusive an 1 soinetimiets orossfea that . are heavy and hard "to bear. Most of us know it, and thoce thait- do not will some day. Those are to be congratulaitcd who h.iive oosre to know that haippiness merely is, not blessedness, and that "a man's life oonsisteth not in the laibundflinda of the things which he possesseth," for not till then can i|e know what, the apostle meant in sftyin,;* 'ißuiirible yourselyes, there, uddei- the mighty haind! of {Jod, that He n~ay exalt you in due time: casting all your anxiety upon Him, for He eareth for you.'' : When once we haive come to do that, we will know that this 1 is not a world of doom or of blind ohance, tout that in God we live and more and! haive our being; thai '^He ordereth a good man's going;, «nd inaketh his wayl aooeptaible to Himselfj" that events do not happen «t random,; that there is a reason for everything even though we miay nut be able to know what it is, and that that reason is fault or flaw because the all-wise God ruTpth over alii.

"Believing "this, w© qati "believe "that' all things are within His knowtediie andl Hie disposal Iwcauso He is Lord of all; and t.hough ; they might perhaips ha.ye been ordered otherwise, w« , believe they were thus ordered by the merciful God and Father of all, .and so are mieant for our great«»t F^;oodi now and here and forever. W*rifciay not always ibe aible t*i see why things are as they are, but if we will stand steadfastly with God we iafi confidently dotnmiiti thej keeping of our i:souis unto Him! as unto ai faithful Creator in the certain assurance that He oareih for us, and that some dayl, if not now, we will see that all that Be 3foes or sniffers tp' ibe lr>ne is for our final