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Christ only makes His bride experience her own weakness, that she may lose all strength and all support in herself, and that, in her self-despair, He may carry her in His arms, and she may be willing to be thus borne; for whatever her course may be, she walks as a child; but when she is in God, and is borne by Him, her progress is infinite, since it is that of God Himself.
When thus, as Wesley has it, in his great hymn: 'Confident in self-despair, we cling to God, then we can say: 'When I am weak then am I strong, 'Behold! we have no might, but our eyes are upon Thee. If Peter had only said, 'By Thy help I will lay down my life for Thy sake, his confidence would have been reasonable and blessed self-confidence, because it would have been confidence in a self inspired by divine power.
Lean hard if you wish God to come quickly. 'We rest on Thee; help us, O Lord! III. Courageous advance should follow self-distrust and summoning God by faith. It is well when self-distrust leads to confidence, when, as Charles Wesley has it in his great hymn: ... I am weak, But confident in self-despair. But that is not enough.
'The middle-aged, she says, 'who have lived through their strongest emotions, but are yet in the time when memory is still half-passionate and not merely contemplative, should surely be a sort of natural priesthood, whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of early stumblers and victims of self-despair.
If I can get my mind clear again, I shall do." He was so much cheered that he began to search for an account of experiments which he had long ago meant to look up, and had neglected out of that creeping self-despair which comes in the train of petty anxieties.
The shadow had returned to his face, and it was plain that under his air of courteous interest stirred the self-despair she had surprised in her first look at him. "Of course I can make out a sight-seer's list for you," he said, when she stopped, "and I will, with pleasure. I think you'd better drop into the Metropolitan Art Galleries while you're in the Park.
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