IN QUIETNESS AND CONFIDENCE.
Just as beneath the troubled surface of the sea there are still depths which the storm never reaches, there are many lives peaceful under the divine assurance that God is with them, and that, therefore, no man shall set on them to hurt them. Their spiritual convictions are so strong in their very simplicity, that they remain quiet and peaceful, while tempests of controversy rage above them. They keep themselves, and are kept, aloof from all the vexed questions of science, of the “higher criticism,” of the laws of prayer, and of degeneration or of expansion. They do not cry to be led by dogmatic authority, and they escape the disturbing elements which trouble those who have built upon shifting foundations. The secret of their peace is that they are of those of whom Jesus said, “Blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed,” whose faith rests not upon book knowledge, but upon love. It is not that they possess a religion; their religion possesses them.—The Christian.