We have seen a child in a field of flowers filling its little hand eagerly and then dropping its posy, not for better but for other flowers. Many professors are such children. The world has never known a period less hopeful to the Gospel than the present. If we would but thoroughly enjoy what God has freely given us, we should be happy to the full, and even anticipate the joys of heaven. Let us even desire to see our names in the celestial conscription. Let us be willing to be dealt with just as
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