Cheerful Courage

March 10.

When thou passest through the waters,
I will be with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee:
when thou walkest through the fire,
thou shalt not be burned;
neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

ISAIAH 43, verse 2.


I am with thee to deliver thee.


JEREMIAH 1, verse 8.

When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;
For I will be with thee thy troubles to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.

ANONYMOUS.


Turn it as thou wilt, thou must give thyself
to suffer what is appointed thee. But if we did that,
God would bear us up at all times in all our
sorrows and troubles, and God would lay
His shoulder under our burdens, and help us
to bear them. For if, with a cheerful courage,
we submitted ourselves to God,
no suffering would be unbearable.

J. TAULER.


Learn to be as the angel, who could descend among
the miseries of Bethesda without losing
his heavenly purity or his perfect happiness.
Gain healing from troubled waters. Make up your mind
to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of
pain and trouble in your passage through life.
By the blessing of God this will prepare you for it;
it will make you thoughtful and resigned
without interfering with your cheerfulness.

J. H. NEWMAN.