[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0902":3},"SEPTEMBER 2\r\nUnto you it Is given ... to suffer (Phil. 1.29).\r\nGod keeps a costly school. Many of its lessons are spelled out through tears. Richard Baxter said, \"O God, I thank Thee for a bodily discipline of eight and fifty years\"; and he is not the only man who was turned a trouble into triumph.\r\nThis school of our Heavenly Father will soon close for us; the term time is shortening every day. Let us not shrink from a hard lesson  or wince under any rod of chastisement. The richer will be the\r\ncrown, and the sweeter will be Heaven, if we endure cheerfully to the end and graduate in glory. --Theodore L. Cuyler.\r\nThe finest china in the world is burned at least three times, some\r\nof it more than three times. Dresden china is always burned three\r\ntimes. Why does it go through that intense fire? Once ought to be\r\nenough; twice ought to be enough. No, three times are necessary to\r\n\r\nburn that china so that the gold and the crimson are brought out more beautiful and then fastened there to stay.\r\nWe are fashioned after the same principle in human life. Our trials are burned into us once, twice, thrice; and by God's grace these    beautiful colors are there and they are there to stay forever.\r\n--Cortland Myers.\r\nEarth's fairest flowers grow not on sunny plain, But where some vast upheaval rent in twain\r\nThe smiling land....\r\nAfter the whirlwind's devastating blast, Father the molten fire and ashen pall,\r\nGod's still small voice breathes healing over all. From riven rocks and fern-clad chasms deep,\r\nFlow living waters as from hearts that weep, There in the afterglow soft dews distill\r\nAnd angels tend God's plants when night falls still,\r\nAnd the Beloved passing by the way Will gather lilies at the break of day.  --J. H. D.",1783499793816]