It may happen that through weakness or failure, of one kind or another, we refuse to enter a position or path of spiritual privilege, and therefore we are thrown back in our course, and put upon a lower form in the school. Than instead of carrying ourselves humbly, and submitting, in meekness and contrition, to the hand of God, we presume to force ourselves into the position, and affect to enjoy the privilege, and put forth pretensions to power, and it all issues in the most humiliating defeat and confusion.