thou leapest over the mountains, and makest them as stepping-stones across the brook! The heaviest tempest that can lower over thee, cannot chill or dismay thy courage, for thy strong wing pierces it, and mounts above it all, into the clear blue sky of fellowship with thy God. But when this joy is gone, then we grow weak, and,— “Like Samson when his hair was lost Meet the Philistines to our cost.” We become victims to temptation, and if we do not yield to it, yet it harasses us, and robs us of the