in Signs of the Times vol.25 no.2 (Jan. 1857)
IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT QUICKENS, the flesh profiteth
nothing. The words, says Jesus, which I spake unto you, they
are spirit and they are life. Dear brethren and sisters, the Lord
has done all things well: he worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will. The wrath of man shall praise him, and the
remainder of wrath he will restrain. He has declared the end
from the beginning and his counsel shall stand and he will do
all his pleasure. And we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God—to them who are the called according
to his purpose. And our light afflictions, which are but
for a moment, do work for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory. What reason we have then to be thankful to
God, to praise, trust and adore him, and to follow him, as dear
children, not through fear of hell, but from love! |
