But who can presume to read the mind of God? Who can understand the intricacy of His great design? For God is subtle; He does not point always at what He intends, but is more dark, and we must seek His face and entreat Him that He will, in His mercy, show it to us. Beloved, do not lose sight, during this our search, of God’s great love and tenderness. For all of you who love your children know that affliction, too, can be a means of evidencing your care for them. Who but a negligent father allows his children to grow up unguided by sometime chastisements? And yet the good father does not knit
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