It is worth while to be cast down when there is a God " who comforteth those that are cast down." What grace, when one thinks that the high and lofty One who inhabiteth eternity stoops to think-and that with infinite tenderness—of all our trials and of all our infirmities; and that even His Spirit, who dwells in us in the midst of these infirmities, intercedes in us when we know not what we ought to ask! Besides, He makes all things work together for good to those who love Him. If rest were down here, it would be another thing; but it is not so. We are on a pilgrimage, and God makes us feel it in our circumstances He detaches us from what is dearest down here; He weans us, and thus, without being aware of it, we ripen for heaven. 449