The uniform calm and cheerfulness which lights up the face of a true Christian, the happy expression of countenance, the sunshine on the brow,—these are never to be found where the life is not careful. I do not mean at all that strictness will always make a man cheerful. God sometimes permits His truest servants to be afflicted with depression of spirits for many reasons. But, assuredly, though you may sometimes see strictness of life without cheerfulness of spirits, you never see cheerfulness of spirits without strictness of life.

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