A Word to Young Converts.
BE not discouraged by varying frames of feeling. Do not compare your experience with that of others, as if yours must be like it to be genuine. Maintain calmness and steadiness of purpose. You must not count on singing joyful songs all the way to Heaven. Think not your hope a delusion, and your soul in the gall of bitterness if your song ceases. Keep up a stout heart. Look to Jesus, and not to frames of feeling as your surety. Keep in the beaten path of duty, listen not to doubt, seek not comfort in yourself, or in your works. When you have no sight, live by faith. When the stars are hidden, and the way is dark, when feeling is no longer satisfactory, look at the steady needle of principle, and go by that less inspiring, but more trusty, guide.