Show tire tira TRIALS OF or LIFE life says hannah moore is not entirely made up tip of great evils or heavy trials but the perpetual recurrence of petty evils and small trials is the tiie ordinary and appointed exercise of the tile christian graces to bear with the failings of those about us with their infirmities their bad judge it their perverse kempers tempers to endure neglect when we feel we deserve attention and gratitude when wa we expect thanks to bear wi with th the company of disagreeable people whom who 1 in providence has placed in our way w ay and whom he has perhaps perli peril aps provided for the trial of virtue these are the best exercises of patience or self belt denial and the better lecause because not bot chosen by ourselves to bear with vexation of business with inter r our retirement with folly intrusion disturbance in short with whatever opposes our gur will contradicts our humor this habitual acquiescence appears to be more of the essence of 0 self denial than thin any little rigors of our own 1 imposing m pos i ng these constant inevitable but int interior er lo 10 evils properly improved furnish a good moral discipline and might in the day of ignorance have superseded pilgrimage and peace |