We may mean well, but we judge ill, when we take for granted that we should serve God better, if our chief anxiety were taken away. I do not, of course, intend by this remark, to convey the idea, that no other cross could keep us aware of, or awake to, our entire dependence on God. He could make any cross or crook in our lot, answer the same purpose. But, why should he change the rod which checks us; or, why should we wish it changed for another? Another must be sent in its place; and must be heavy enough to produce in us, as in Paul, the settled conviction that God is MASTER.

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