their full development. The delay demonstrated the utter weakness of all other remedies. What could reason do with all her intellectual energy (1 Cor. 1:21), or the law with all its heavenly sanctions? (Rom. 8:3.) Successive disappointments prepare the welcome to the one—alone—efficient remedy. Rightly to time things is the property of wisdom. And here indeed “the Lord is a God of judgment,” not only willing, but “waiting” the time, “that he may be gracious, and have mercy. Blessed”—truly “blessed