He makes all things work together to the ()pod of those who love Him. He weans us in every way from this world, that He may attach us to that One for which He has created us anew. This is only a place we are passing through, where Christ was cast out. We pass through it, and, bereft of all here, we have only to work for Him and to glorify Him. God's hand is always better than man's; His seeming harshness even is better than the world's favor: the spring which guides it is always love, and love directed by perfect wisdom which we shall understand by-and-by. Meanwhile, He has given His Son, that we may be able to be certain that all is love. It is a world of sorrow, but where Christ has left His footsteps, indelible proofs for faith that love has entered this world of sorrow to take its part there in grace. Look then to Jesus,....; He bears a part in all our afflictions; and be sure that the love of God will not forsake you. 552