From: Tondreau <bi...@ma...> - 2010-01-10 20:30:26
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he suffered" (Heb. 2.10, and 5.8);--that the Apostle "gloried in tribulations, knowing that tribulation workers patience, and patience experience, and experience hope--even a hope which maketh not ashamed" (Rom. 5. 5);--that he could describe himself "as sorrowful--yet always rejoicing; as poor--yet making many rich; as having nothing--and yet possessing all things" (2 Cor. 6. 10). But a Family left, by our labour and contrivance, in a situation in which, as our Blessed Lord himself declares, it is all but impossible that they should be saved,[5] presents an object of contemplation widely different. Faith can only lay hold of the fearful declaration;--"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdo |