Fragment: Burdens

 
'Tis a very great privilege to have burdens to bear while here; so thought our Lord.
Trouble and distress sometimes make a blaze of prayer COME out of two or three little coals of faith.
The light that came out of the cloud to Israel, must have had something of a very rich and soft character to a believing Israelite. How gentle was its touch to those whose fears and anxieties were healed by it!