William Drummond born 1585.
Dr. Samuel Johnson died 1784.
Joseph Noel Paton born 1821.
Phillips Brooks born 1835.
Hamilton Mabie born 1846.
When the clouds of sorrow gather over us, we see nothing beyond
them, nor can imagine how they can be dispelled; yet a new day
succeeded to the night, and sorrow is never long without a dawn of
ease.
--Dr. Samuel Johnson.
The fountains of joy and sorrow are for the most part locked up in
ourselves.... There come to great, solitary, and sorely smitten
souls moments of clear insight, of assurance of victory, of
unspeakable fellowship with truth and life and God, which outweigh
years of sorrow and bitterness.
--Hamilton Mabie.
And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your
heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you.
--John 16. 22.
My Father, may I remember that the days of my life that I give over to
grief can never be reclaimed. Help me that I may not want to keep
sorrow in my life, but with faith may I believe that "weeping may
endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Amen.