[11] Gen. xlix. 19.
[12] Ps. xxvii. 3.
[13] Rev. Fred. Robertson's "Sermons; Second Series," p. 85.
[14] "You will not be asked in the last Great Day whether you had great enjoyment and much enlargement of soul here. Speak to that vast multitude, which no man can number, now around the throne. Ask them whether they came through much consolation and joy in the Lord. No! through much tribulation. Ask them whether they were saved by their warmth of love to their Saviour. No! but they had washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."—Miss Plumptre's Letters.
[15] "In the time of need He hides Himself often, and seems to have forgotten me. Tears have thus been my meat, because of their saying unto my soul, 'Where is now thy God?' But I am bound by all the experienced freeness and riches of the Redeemer's grace to say, that when He hides Himself from me, it is not because He has forgotten me, but because I have been forgetting Him."—Hewitson.
[16] Miss Plumtre's Letters.
[17] Psalm xi. 1.
[18] "I was at the very zenith of earthly happiness. On returning from the ball, I took a hasty review of the evening I had passed as I lay sleepless upon my pillow. The glitter—the music—the dance—the excitement—the attention—the pleasure—all passed before me. But, oh! I felt a want I could not describe. I sighed, and, throwing my arm over my head, whispered to myself these expressive words, 'Is this all?'"—Mrs Winslow, Life.
[19] Micah ii. 10.
[20] Gen. xxxii. 28.