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12 March 10th, evening.
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Man is few of days and full of trouble, Job 14 verse 1.
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It may be of great service to us, before we fall asleep, to remember this mournful fact,
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or it may lead us to hold lightly to earthly things.
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There is nothing very pleasant in the recollection that we are not above the arrows of adversity,
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but it may humble us and prevent us from boasting like the psalmist that our mountain stands
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firm, that we shall never be moved.
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It may prevent us from making our roots too deep in this soil, from which we are so soon
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to be transplanted into the heavenly garden.
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Let us keep in mind the frail tenure upon which we hold our temporal mercies.
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If we remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we will
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not be so ready to build our nests in them.
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We should love, but we should love with the love that expects death, and that reckons
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Our dear relations are simply loaned to us, and the hour when we must return them to
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their lend us hand may be sooner than we think.
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This is also true of our worldly goods.
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Do not riches take to themselves wings and fly away?
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Our health is equally precarious.
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Frail flowers at the field we must not reckon upon blooming forever.
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There is a time appointed for weakness and sickness, when we will have to glorify God
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by suffering and not by earnest activity.
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There is no single point in which we can hope to escape from the sharp arrows of affliction.
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Out of our few days there is not one secure from sorrow.
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Man's life is a cask full of bitter wine.
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He who looks for joy in it will be better looking for honey in a salty ocean.
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Beloved reader, do not set your affections upon things of earth, but seek those things
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that are above, for hear the moth devours and the thief's steels, but there all joys
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are perpetual and eternal.
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The path of trouble is the way home.
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Lord, make this thought a pillow for many a weary head.
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This has been morning and evening, a production of crossway.