affliction is shortlived, and permanence is on the other side.* Still more are we accustomed to attribute weight to affliction rather than to glory. The Apostle reverses that also. The simple and common idea of scales is in his mind; weighed against one another, the glory goes down and the affliction kicks the beam. All the daily wear and tear of life, with its losses, sicknesses, and sufferings, are as nothing, and the result of the comparison would be much the same if that scale were empty. However