[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1103":3},"NOVEMBER 3\r\nOn all bare heights shall be their pasture (Isa. 40:9, R. V).\r\nToys and trinkets are easily won, but the greatest things are\r\ngreatly bought The top-most place of power is always bought with\r\nblood. You may have the pinnacles if you have enough blood to pay.\r\nThat is the congest condition of the holy heights everywhere. The story of real heroisms is the story of sacrificial blood. The\r\nchiefest values in fife and character are not blown across our way by vagrant winds. Great souls have great sorrows.\r\nGreat truths are dearly bought, the common truths, Such as men give and take from day to day,\r\n\r\nCome in the common walk of easy life,\r\nBlown by the careless wind across our way.\r\nGreat truths are greatly won, not found by chance, Nor waited on the breath of summer dream;\r\nBut grasped in the great struggle of the soul,  Hard buffeting with adverse wind and stream.\r\nBut in the day of conflict, fear and grief,\r\nWhen the strong hand of God, put forth in might, Plows up the subsoil of the stagnant heart,\r\nAnd brings the imprisoned truth seed to the light.\r\nWrung from the troubled spirit, in hard hours Of weakness, solitude, perchance of pain,\r\nTruth springs like harvest from the well-plowed field, And the soul feels it has not wept in vain.\r\nThe capacity for knowing God enlarges as we are brought by Him into\r\ncircumstances which oblige us to exercise faith; so, when    difficulties beset our path let us thank God that He is taking trouble with us, and lean hard upon Him.",1783499794000]