[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0928":3},"SEPTEMBER 28 \nIn me ... peace (John 16.33).\r\nThere is a vast difference between happiness and blessedness. Paul had imprisonments and pains, sacrifice and suffering up to the very    limit; but in the midst of it all, he was blessed. AD the\r\nbeatitudes came into his heart and life in the midst of those very conditions.\r\nPaganini, the great violinist, came out before his audience one day   and made the discovery just as they ended their applause that there was something wrong with his violin. He looked at it a second and\r\nthen saw that it was not his famous and valuable one.\r\nHe felt paralyzed for a moment then turned to his audience and told them there had been some mistake and he did not have his own\r\nviolin. He stepped back behind the curtain thinking that it was\r\nstill where he had left it but discovered that someone had stolen  his and left that old second-hand one in its place. He back of the curtain a moment then came out before his audience and said:\r\n\"Ladies and Gentlemen: I will show you that the music is not in the instrument but in the soul\" And he played as he had never played   before; and out of that second-hand instrument the music poured   forth until the audience was enraptured with enthusiasm and the\r\napplause almost lifted the ceiling of the building, because the man had revealed to them that music was not in the machine but in his  own soul.\r\nIt is your mission, tested and tried one, to walk out on the stage   of this world and reveal to all earth and Heaven that the music is not in conditions, not in the things, not in externals, but the\r\nmusic of life is in your own soul.\r\nIf peace be in the heart,\r\nThe wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty, The midnight flash but shows the path of duty,\r\nEach living creature tells some new and joyous story, The very trees and stones all catch a ray of glory,\r\nIf peace be in the heart. --Charles Francis Richardson.",1783499793896]