My Aspirations (Paperback)

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: ing is the world's cross. I never see Thee till the cloud has overshadowed from my sight all the proud trophies of myself. My sense of night is Thy day. When I ask to build a tabernacle to Thee, in answer Thou sendest me a cloud. I accept thine answer, Lord. I will not fear to enter into the cloud. Thy bow is in it. Thy promise is in it. The pledge of all possible promises is in it, for I see in the midst of it One like unto the Son of Man, and in companionship with Him I shall have all things. "And when they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples."?Mark iv. 34. It is only when I am alone with Thee that I perfectly understand Thee. When Thou speak- est to the multitude there are many things I cannot comprehend. Outward life is a parable, and it is often hard to read. I can tell the gain of my own griefs; those of my brothersometimes baffle me. Why should it not be so? My own soul is before me; the soul of my brother is not before me. In him I see but the parable?the visible form of sorrow; I cannot taste its fruit. Shall I judge of Thy providence without knowing the case ? Shall I say Thou art stern, cruel, severe, when the facts are not before me ? Nay, I shall go to the one object of my knowledge?my own soul. My soul is within my experience, and I would be alone with it and with Thee. I cannot read the plan of this big world, but I can read the plan of my own life. My sorrows are a mystery to my brother as his are to me, but each of us in his own heart has the mystery made manifest. My heart indicates the dark places of Thy providence. Thou hast revealed the parable in my solitary soul. Out of the darkness I have grown to Thee. Through the night I have come to Thee. Over the waves I have been borne to Thee. From the grave of buried hopes I have been raised...