J. R. Miller, D.D., Silent Times: A Book to Help in Reading the Bible into Life (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1886), ch. VII, "The Blessing of Not Getting," pp. 79–80

Sometimes the ways of God do seem hard. Our fondest hopes are crushed: our fairest joys fade like summer flowers. The desires of our hearts are withheld from us; yet, if we are God's children, we cannot doubt that in eve…