BLAMING GOD FOR MISFORTUNES.
By United Presbyterian
How READY men are to trace their misfortunes to God, and to lay the blame on him. A little girl fell into a mud puddle which she had been forbidden to go near. It was a clear act of disobedience, but instead of frankly acknowledging it, she struggled out and said to her mother, who had run to her help, "Mamma, I don't believe God loves me, or he wouldn't let me fall into this ugly mud puddle." We are only children of a larger growth. We play the fool, and when we feel the consequences of our folly, we put on an air of injured innocence, and pose as martyrs. A pupil wastes his time and fails in examinations, and then accuses his teachers of partiality. There are mysteries in adverse providences, but not so many as we sometimes think. It is generally true that we fall into the pit that our own hands have digged.