[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1129":3},"NOVEMBER 29  \nNevertheless afterward (Heb. 12:11).\r\nThere is a legend that tells of a German baron who at his castle on the Rhine, stretched wires from tower to tower, that the winds\r\nmight convert them into an Aeolian harp. And the soft breezes played about the castle, but no music was born.\r\nBut one night there arose a great tempest and hill and castle were smitten by the fury of the mighty winds. The baron went to the\r\nthreshold to look out upon the terror of the storm, and the Aeolian harp was filling the air with strains that rang out even above the\r\nclamor of the tempest It needed the tempest to bring out the music!\r\nAnd have we not known men whose fives have not given out any\r\nentrancing music in the day of a calm prosperity, but who, when the\r\n\r\ntempest drove against them have astonished their fellows by the power and strength of their music?\r\nRain, rain\r\nBeating against the pane! How endlessly it pours Out of doors\r\nFrom the blackened sky- I wonder why!\r\nFlowers, flowers,\r\nUpspringing after showers, Blossoming fresh and fair, Everywhere!\r\nAh, God has explained Why it rained!\r\nYou can always count on God to make the \"afterward\" of\r\ndifficulties, if rightly overcome, a thousand times richer and  fairer than the forward. \"No chastening . . . seemeth joyous, nevertheless afterward. . . \" What a yield!",1783499794077]