In regard to the things which Christ does not tell us, let us be thankful to Him for his silence. The cloud that veils full knowledge "is a cloud of love." Many things about our great future, and almost every thing about our earthly future, are concealed from us. If we look back with a thoughtful heart, we cannot but feel how wisely and kindly He has unrolled the volume of life, and stood by us and strengthened us when we had hard things to read in it. Events that would have seemed intolerable have happened, and lie behind us with a softened light shed over them. We may be grateful that they were not foretold,—and grateful still more if we have been carried through them, not by having our hearts made hard, but our souls made strong. It may help us to be less distrustful about what things lie still before us. When we can bear them, He will let us know them,—or, when He lets us know them, He will enable us to bear them.

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