God looks for might now, not in doing, but in suffering; as one of our poets has said in prose," The irresistible might of nothingness;" to take scorn in a day when not only man but Christendom has departed from God. There is no triumph so great as that of suffering, when it is God's own people who have departed. Nothing gives such power to do and to suffer; as the certainty of what the will of the Lord is. We have all, as children of God, as bright, and brighter, opportunities still -for victory as had any who have gone before us. Oh may we win victories! The only victory He values is one won under the shadow and in the power of the Cross.
(J. N. D.)