“I am glad to think
I am not bound to make the world go right,
But only to discover and to do with cheerful heart
The work that God appoints.”
Some one said that if men were to be saved by contentment, instead of by faith in Christ, most people would be lost. Yet contentment is a duty. It is also possible. There was one man at least who said, and said it very honestly, “I have learned in whatsoever state I am therein to be content. His words have special value, too, when we remember in what circumstances they were written. They were dated in a prison when the writer was wearing a chain. It is easy enough to say such things in the summer days of prosperity, but to say them amid trials and adversities requires a real experience of victorious living.
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