All Things Work Together for Good.
Our ideas of good and bad, desirable and undesirable, ordinarily pivot on our selfish interests considered from a very limited outlook. In a dry season, when water in the springs and streams is low, and the cattle thirst, and the mills can run only half-time, or less, a heavy rain is welcomed as a good and desirable thing to those whose personal needs are thus supplied. Yet at that very time the farmer who has the grass lying freshly cut on his best meadows, and the father who is with his wife and children at a distance from his home in an open wagon without an umbrella, consider that first shower anything but good and desirable. And so it is with well-nigh every experience in life; we can not look at it apart from our personal and selfish interests. Is it not cause for gratitude on the part of all the world, ourselves included, that we can not choose as to God's lesser or greater providences? Our Father knows what is good and desirable for all and each of His children, as they do not. "The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice."—Sunday School Times.