A Christian friend visiting a good man under great distress and afflicting dispensations, which he bore with such patient and composed resignation as to make his friend wonder and admire it—inquired how he was enabled so to comfort himself? The good man said, "The distress I am under is indeed severe; but I find it lightens the stroke very much, to creep near to him who handles the rod;" adding, "But where else, save in the religion of Christ, could such a sufferer find such a support."