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ach this place, we will stop asking for sympathy because of our hard situation or bad treatment, for we will recognize these things as the very conditions of our blessing, and we will turn from them to God and find in them a claim upon Him. --A. B. Simpson.
George Matheson, the well-known blind preacher of Scotland, who recently went to be with the Lord, said: "My God, I have never thanked Thee for my thorn. I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn. I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross; but I have never thought of my cross as itself a present glory.
"Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my thorn. Show me that I have climbed to Thee by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made my rainbows."
"Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through the cypress trees."
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“我为基督的缘故，就以软弱，凌辱，急难，逼迫，困苦，为可喜乐的。因我什么时侯软弱，什么时侯就刚强了“ （林后十二�?0）�?
　　若是把这一节圣经直译出来，是非常有力的。直译该是：“我为基督的缘故，就是没有力量，被人侮辱，受折 磨，被追赶，关入绝境，还是喜乐的，因我什么时侯没有力量，什么时侯就像炸药一般猛烈”�?
　　这是得神够用恩典的秘诀：就是承认我们自己的环境和一切都已完了。当我们到了这种境地的时候，我们就不 会再去求人的同情了,coach purses outlet。所以所有的患难，痛苦，都是我们得祝福的条件，我们可以藉此向神有所要求。——信�?
　　苏格兰（Scotland）的盲目布道家马得胜（George Matheson）说：“我的神啊，我从来没有为我的遭遇感谢过你。我曾为我的玫瑰感谢你过一千次，却没有 为我的刺感谢你过一次。我一直注目仰望那个因背十字架而得的奖赏,coach cheap，却从来没有想到十字架本身就是现在荣耀的奖赏�?
　　求你给我知道十字架的荣耀；求你给我知道刺的价值。求你给我看见痛苦的路径是到你那里去的梯级；求你给 我看见我的眼泪是筑成虹彩的材料”�?
“未见穿过柏树的星光�?
将是人生莫大的悲伤”�?
April 9
"All these things are against me." (Gen. 42:36)
"All things work together for good to them that love God." (Rom. 8:28)
Many people are wanting power. Now how is power produced? The other day we passed the great works where the trolley engines are supplied with electricity. We heard the hum and roar of the countless wheels, and we asked our friend,
"How do they make the power?"
"Why," he said, "just