The Conquest of Fear by Basil King
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is in the full enjoyment of all that makes for happiness and prosperity.
We are always prone to contrast our darker minutes with our friends' brighter ones. We forget, or perhaps we never know, that they do the same with us. At times we are as much the object of their envy as they ever are of ours. I say this not on the principle that misery loves company, but in order to do away with the heathen suspicion lingering in many minds that God singles _me_ out for trial, heaping benefits on others who deserve them no more than I do. God singles no one out for trial. When trials come they spring, as nearly as I can observe, from one or all of the three following sources. There are: A. The trials which come from a world of matter; B. The trials which come from a world of men; C. The trials we bring on ourselves. III A. The minute we speak of matter we speak of a medium which the mind of to-day is just beginning to understand. The mind of other days did not understand it at all. Few phases of modern advance seem to me more |
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