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"Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence,
He hides a smiling face."
The idea expressed in these few lines brings up
in long review the trials of a past life, and the
recollection of sorrows and afflictions which we
afterwards, not unfrequently, discovered to be
blessings in disguise, and in reality seemingly
designed for our best good.
There is much food for reflection in the follow-
ing stanza from   Gray's "Elegy" :
"Full many a gem, of purest ray serene,
The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower Is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
With this reading comes up te thought of
those of our fellow men whom we know to be
good, noble, and worthy, but whose names will go
down to the grave unhonored and unknown.
Very plainly we see the meaning beyond the
words in the following, also from Gray:
"Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid
Some heart, once pregnant with celestial fire -
Hand, that the rod of erpire might have swayed,
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre."
A similar idea is expressed by Whittier,

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