Though There Is Not Always

Sincerity Carries The Soul In All Simplicity To Open Its Heart To God.

To Run And Work The Law Commands, But Gives Us Neither Feet Nor Hands. But Better News The Gospel Brings, It Bids Us Fly And Gives Us Wings.

Here Is The Life Of Prayer, When In Or With The Spirit, A Man Being Made Sensible Of Sin, And How To Come To The Lord For Mercy; He Comes, I Say, In The Strength Of The Spirit, And Crieth Father. That One Word Spoken In Faith Is Better Than A Thousand Prayers, As Men Call Them, Written And Read, In A Formal, Cold, Lukewarm Way.

But Pleasures Are Like Poppies Spread: You Seize The Flower

Hope Has A Thick Skin And Will Endure Many A Blow; It Will Put On Patience As A Vestment And Will Endure All Things (if They Be Of The Right Kind) For The Joy That Is Set Before It. Hence Patience Is Called Patience Of Hope,' Because It Is Hope That Makes The Soul Exercise Long-suffering Under The Cross Until The Time Comes To Enjoy The Crown!