How very hard it is to be a Christian!

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.

The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.