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Daily Monitor, Or, Reflections for Each Day in the Year
Daily Monitor Or Reflections for Each Day in the Year Author:Charles Brooks Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROPER CONDUCT IN ADVERSITY. 65 FEBRUARY 20. Łe of good cheer, for I have overcome the world. Adversity has slain its thousands, though prosperity may h... more »ave destroyed its ten thousands. It is very important that trial should purify and exalt the character. These means of improvement are natural to some minds, easy to others, and attainable by all. The grand rule is to look to principles, and to eavefeelings to take care of themselves. This rule includes every thing. Principle will lead the mourner to refer all to God ; principle will oblige him to forget himself, and will suggest to him continual occasions of doing good to others. Principle will teach him that affliction is not intended to set him apart from others, but to enlighten his views of his relation to them, to exalt his affections towards them, to animate his efforts in their behalf. He must, sometimes, notwithstanding his endeavours to forget himself, feel what an aching void sorrow has left in his heart ; but, instead of turning his view inwards to behold the desolation there, he will look abroad with a searching eye on the varied aspects which life presents to him : he will gather together all the images of peace, hope, and joy, which he can lay hold on, fo supply the cravings of his affections. He will go forth into the world from the house of mourning, calm and erect, prepared to abide its storms, and ready to welcome its sunshine. He will have smiles ibr the infant, and a heart open to its little joys : he will have cheerfulness for the aged, and a ready hand to help their infirmities ; he will have words of encouragement and of warning for the young, and a watchful eye to protect their interests ; he will rejoice in their brilliant hopes as if they were his own, and grieve for their destruction as if the l...« less