sickness may be full of grace and truth. It comes by no blind
chance, but by the will of him who so loved me, that he stooped to
die for me on the Cross. Christ my Lord and God has some gracious
and bountiful purpose in it, some lesson for me to learn from it. I
will ask him to teach me that lesson; and I trust in him that he will
teach me; and that, even for this sickness and this sorrow, I shall
have cause to thank him in the world to come. Shall I not trust him
who not only made this world, but so loved it that he stooped to die
for it upon the Cross?

The labourer and the farmer can trust in him, in the midst of short
crops and bad seasons, and say, In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth; and he is full of grace and truth. Frost and
blight obey his commands as well as sunshine and plenty. He knows
best what ought to be. Shall we not trust in him, who not only made
this world, but so loved it, that he stooped to die for it upon the
Cross?

The scholar and the man of science, studying the wonders of this
earth, can trust in him, and say, In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth; and he is full of grace and truth. Many things
puzzle me; and the more I learn the less I find I really know; but I
shall know as much as is good for me, and for mankind. God is full
of grace, and will not grudge me knowledge; and full of truth, and
will not deceive me. And I shall never go far wrong as long as I
believe, not only in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all
things visible and invisible, but in one Lord Jesus Christ, his only-
begotten Son, light of light, very God of very God, by whom all
things were made, who for us men and our salvation came down, and
died, and rose again; whose kingdom shall have no end; who rules over