I want to give you some rules for the time of discouragement. Perhaps your Sunday school class has gotten smaller and smaller. Your prayers, seemingly, are not being answered. Someone has suggested in a round-about way that you are not all that you have thought yourself to be in certain fields. So, you are discouraged and downhearted and defeated. First, do not accept the judgment of your own heart about the matter. A discouraged heart will always go astray, so don’t think about yourself the way
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