If you were to take out of the Scriptures all the stories that have to do with poor afflicted men and women, what a very small book the Bible would become, especially if together with the stories you removed all the psalms of the sorrowful, all the promises for the distressed, and all the passages which belong to the children of grief. This Book, indeed, for the most part is made up of the annals of the poor and despised. Do not get to be so heavenly-minded that you cannot put up with the little