NEVER complain of your birth, your training, your employment, your hardships; never fancy that you could be something if only you had a different lot assigned you. God understands his own plan, and he understands what you want a great deal better than you do. The very things you most deprecate as most fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. What you call hinderances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God's opportunities; and it is nothing new that the patient should dislike his medicines, or any certain proof that they are poisons. No! A truce to all such impatience! Choke that devilish envy which gnaws your heart because you are not in the same lot with others; bring down your soul, or rather bring it up to receive God's will, and do his work in your lot, in your sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against your temptations; and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good, but really consistent with it.—Sel.