duties are ours, events are God's. We should therefore endeavour to leave things to come in God's hands, and not to be over-anxious about health, or family, or money, or plans. To cultivate this frame of mind would add immensely to our peace. How many of our cares and fears are about things which never come to pass! Happy is that man who can walk in our Lord's steps, and say, " I shall have what is good for me. I shall live on earth till my work is done, and not a moment longer. I shall be taken when I am ripe for heaven, and not a minute before. All the powers of the world cannot take away my life, till G^ permits. AU the physicians on earth cannot preserve it, when God caUs me away."
Is there anything beyond the reach of man in this spirit P Surely not. Believers have a eovenant ordered in all things and sure. The very hairs of their heads are numbered. Their steps are ordered by the Lord. AU things are working together for their good. When they are afflicted, it is for their profit. When they are sick, it is for some wise purpose. All things are said to be their's, — ^life, death, things present, and things to come. (2 Sam. xxui. 5 ; Matt. x. 30 ; Psalm xxxvii. 23 ; Bom. viiL 28 ; Heb. xu. 10 ; John xi. 4 ; 1 Cor. iii. 22.) There is no such thing as chance, luck, or accident, in the life of a believer. There is but one thing need- ful, in order to make a believer calm, quiet, un- ruffled, undisturbed in every position, and imder every eiicamstance. That one thing is faith in active exercise. Per such faith let us daily pray. Few indeed know anything of it. The faith of most believers is very