THE BREAKING OF THE DAY

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4402, 24 April 1909, Page 1

THE BREAKING OF THE DAY

Every man who strives to t prevail,, while still uuforgiven 1 of his sin, must learn that in the last appeal the struggle is with God; aud every misfortune, every disappointment, every * strange scourging of affairs that seem by accident to thwart and baffle us; nay, every cruel blow from unseen hands, every shock of sorrow, every bitter enemy who lays our hopes and lives in ashes, all these are but the varied movements of that antagonist who seems to have forgotten, but whose shading hand, emerging from the darkness, holds us back when our feet are already touching the long sought promised land whatever it may be. And qh, my brethren, the greatest lesson of this ghostly tournament is this that, a better victory may be ours, a statelier Eden may be won. , For it was thus with Jacob, | when struggle turned .to prayer, | when, recognising at last against I whom N he fought, he ceased to wrestle aud began to pray, the voice of auger and ambition hushed iu the noble threat: “I l will not let Thee go except Thou bless me.” As blessed he was ; never the same again to go halting ever after, it is true, but walking humbly with his God. chastened to a deeper peace than the joy of triumph ever could have brought him, his heart’s deep gratitude now to be evoked at thought of the great overthrow that had purified the stream of his desire and filled his life with blessing. —Robert E. Knowles in H The Undertow.”