At another time it is our humility, or our
meekness, or our capacity for self-denial, or our will and ability to
forgive an injury, or our perseverance in still unanswered prayer; and so
on the ever-shifting but never-ceasing experiment goes. I do beseech
you, my brethren, take that true view of life home with you again this
night. This true view of life, namely, that experience in the divine
life can only come to you through your being much experimented upon. Meet
all your trials and tribulations and temptations, then, under this
assurance, that all things will work together for good to you also if you
are only rightly exercised by means of them. Nothing else but this
growing experience and this settling assurance will be able to support
you under the sudden ills of life; but this will do it. This, when you
begin by experience to see that all this life, and all the good and all
the ill of this life, are all under this splendid divine law,--that your
tribulations also are indeed working within you a patience, and your
patience an experience, and your experience a hope that maketh not
ashamed.
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