A Good Way to Look upon It.
By Editor
The Eastern Tidings, our little local paper published in Lucknow, India, has a letter from Burma by Sister Caroline H. Votaw, in which she speaks of the encouraging things that are coming to them in that field, and says, "God has blessed us both with severe trial and with encouragement." That is a good way to look upon the trial. God never permits a trial to come to any of His children but that in the trial there is blessing. The great danger with us is that we get to looking at the trial side of it, we forget that God's hand is over us, forget that He permitted the trial to come, forget that in that trial He has bound up great blessings, and so we lose the blessing by not seeing it. It is a good prayer always to pray, "Help us to see when good comes, give us power to discern the good, and give us faith to see that God's good hand is always over all things for the good of His children."