We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, viz. into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something. There is a great danger in asking, “What is the use of it?” There is no use in it at all. If you want a life of usefulness, don’t be a Christian after Our Lord’s stamp; you will be much more useful if you are not. The