uld I be able to get through such and such
a trouble? Far, far from it. Let us not waste the strength which God
has given us for to-day in vain fears or vain dreams about to-morrow. To-
day is quite full enough of anxiety and care. Sufficient for the day is
the evil thereof, and sufficient for the day is the good thereof. To-day,
and to-morrow too, may end very differently from what we _hope_. Yes.
But they may end very differently from what we _fear_. Look not too far
ahead, lest you see what is coming before you are ready for the sight. If
we foresaw the troubles that are coming, perhaps it would break our
hearts; and if we foresaw the happiness which is coming, perhaps it would
turn our heads. Let us not meddle with the future but refrain our souls
and keep them low, like little children, content with the day's food, and
the day's schooling, and the day's play-hours, sure that the Divine
Master knows all that is right, and how to train us, and whither to lead
us, though we know not, and need not know, save this, that the path by
which He is leading each of us--if we will but obey and follow, step by
step--leads up to Everlasting Life.

_All Saints-Day Sermons_.

IV. OUT OF THE DEEP OF LONELINESS, FAILURE, AND DISAPPOINTMENT.

My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass. I am even as a
sparrow that sitteth alone on the housetop--Ps. cii. 4, 6.

My lovers and friends hast Thou put away from me, and hid mine
acquaintance out of my sight--Ps. lxxviii. 18.

I looked on my right hand, and saw there was no man that would know
me. I had no place to flee unto, and no man cared for my soul. I
cried unto Thee, O Lord, and said, Thou art my Hope. When my spirit
was in heaviness, then Thou knewest my path.--Ps. cxlii. 4, 5.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous, yea, our God is merciful. I was
in misery, and He helped me.--Ps. cxvi. 5, 6.

It is sorrow--sorrow and failure--which forces men to believe that there
is One who heareth prayer, forces them to lift up their eyes to One from
whom cometh their help. Before the terrible realities of danger, death,
disappointment, shame, ruin--and most of all before deserved shame,
deserved ruin--all arguments melt away; and the man or woman, who was but
too ready a day before to say, "Tush, God will never see and will never
hear," begins to hope passionately that God does see, that God does hear.
In the hour of darkness, when