e possess, both in outward and inward things.
This is one of the points in which we are disposed to agree with the
saying that the circumference of our circle is very near to the centre.
We can grasp very little. Our hands are small and the world is large.

"Tell me how I can make my broad acres more broad," is the request of
the rich man. "Tell me how I can make my narrow holding less narrow,"
is the cry of the poor. But a life in God makes us rich, for "all
things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or
life, or death, or things present or things to come;--all are yours;
and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's." "Blessed are the meek; for
they shall inherit the earth." "There is no man that hath left house,
or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or
lands, for My sake and the Gospel's, but he shall receive an
hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and
mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world
to come eternal life."

And Madame Guyon says, "Have I not infinitely more than a hundredfold,
in so entire a possession as Thou my Lord hast taken of me, in that
unshaken firmness which Thou givest me in my sufferings, in a perfect
tranquillity in the midst of a furious tempest that assails me on every
side, in an unspeakable joy, enlargedness, and liberty which I enjoy in
a most strait and rigorous captivity?"

(2) How trifling is our knowledge! Yet fewer people will assent to the
lack of knowledge, for many think they know a good deal. As in the
times of Socrates, it is only the wise man who knows he knows nothing.
And yet how little we know! We know but little of things in this
world, with all our sciences and study, and we know much less about
God, and glory, and immortality, and the spirits which live outside the
tent of this mortal flesh, or of any of those things which "eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard." And with all our books of theology and
treatises on spiritual life, we are almost obliged to say that "all is
less than nothing and vanity." But we believe that for those whom God
enlarges, there is an unspeakable increase in the perceptive powers of
the soul: they are taught things that no one else knows anything about,
and that are hidden from the wise and prudent. There is knowledge for
the simple and lowly ones; for those who, in the spiritual strength
they have derived from God, run in the way of