to be able and to be permitted to do which, is a great mercy (Ps. 42:9.) But when sufferings have accomplished their purpose they are turned away by the Lord. The end always shows the difference between the righteous and the wicked. The proclamations which, according to 1 Peter 1:2, were made by the prophets, “of the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow,” rested on the known experiences of the righteous. He who walks uprightly in the ways of the Lord, must have experienced that