DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS : Is our will swallowed up in the will of God, so that we can say at all times, Not my will, but thine, be done? Luke xxii, 42. Do we want our own way, and if we cannot have it are we uneasy and feel like complaining? or do we consider that we are not our own, we are bought with a price? 1 Cor. vi, 19, 20. If we lose our earthly possessions by fire, wind, or water, do we feel to mourn? or can we say with Job, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord?" When we are called to languish on a sick bed, do we feel to take counsel of Job's wife, to curse God and die? Job ii, 9, or do we feel as Job did, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him?" Job xiii, 15. When men say all manner of evil against us falsely, do we feel like trying to find something against them? Do we feel like mourning because our names are cast out as evil? or do we feel to rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is our reward in heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets which were before us? Matt. v, 12. Finally, brethren, let us prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thess. v, 16-18. I feel to say with the poet, "In all my Lord's appointed ways,
My journey I'll pursue;
Hinder me not, ye much-loved saints,
For I must go with you." Pray for me, that I may meet you on mount Zion, to sing the song of deliverance.