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of the great art of. grappling with difficulties, rather
than avoiding them. It is not right to grumble about
them and magnify them—no; but to meet them with a
brave heart. Then every moment would be laden only
with its own burden. I have since learned from the
volume of Divine truth, that this is also a great princi-
ple of religion :—That we know not what shall be on
the morrow, but sufficient unto the day is the evil

thereof.

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the beauteous land.

‘* And the little moments,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.”

LOIRE