Fellowship with God we must have, or the essential honey of love will be deficient, the bloom of joy will be wanting, the aroma of zeal and earnestness will be missed. We make fearful failures with God’s promises through not appropriating them. Since the Lord has appeared to me, He has made me see His restraining hand where once I saw nothing but the cruel disappointment of my hopes. In my own person I know what it is to be vexed with sore pains and yet to feel such rest of heart that I felt no desire