...spark disturbs our clod, Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three-parts pain , etc. This has struck a high courageous note...

...natural that he should preach that this life should be one long act of strenuous, unwearied endeavor. Strive and hold cheap the strain, Learn, nor account the pang; dare, nor judge the throe. 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. And again : —...

...I could never bo, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...nor account the pang ; dare, never grudge the throe! For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:...

...the goal of perfection. And so the poet exhorts us to welcome the pain, to persist in the strife: " Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the mroe."* He is an optimist. He finds a place for every sin, a solace for every misery. Gazing on the...

...the vice of quotation, he began to say, his face radiant with the happiness of inexperience, — " ' Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain.' " Sidney looked at him with a sparkle of laughter...

...commence to assert themselves. The path of true Church progress on earth always must be rough : — " Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness...rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! " No strange thing is happening to us in Wales. It is an instance of a law that pervades all Church...

...and ruin, will yet shine out, the beginning of glory for them. CHAPTER VI. THE BLESSING OP A BURDEN. "Then welcome each rebuff, That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand nor go. Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang;...

...perfect in thankfulness, grateful for the bitter as well as for the sweet in their experiences, — for "each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go." Such cheerfulness of soul needs strong faith, and is won through hard trial. Rom. v. 3 — 5 supplies...

...Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth sufficiently impressed . . . Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,...

...the beginning of glory for them. CHAPTER VI. THE BLESSING OP A BURDEN. " Then welcome each retmrr, That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand nor go. Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang;...