Welsh Journals

THE TEEASURY. No. 39. MARCH, 1867. Pkige 2d. REV. J. THOMAS, B.A., MERTRTR. f|/ffiB frequently discover in passing through life that there qy\MIH is very much to be learnt in places and circumstances $£$[%$ in which we think there is nothing, and which we would, if possible, avoid. There are many objects we would not behold, many paths in which we would not walk, many events we would not meet; but God brings us face to face with them against our desire, that we may learn the lessons of wisdom they are adapted to teach, and which we could not learn so well anywhere else. Our desires are not always safe guides, and it is a great mercy that God often disappoints them; for those things which we frequently dread as our greatest enemies, looking at them from a distance, turn out, on nearer acquaintance, to be our best friends. As our history unfolds itself even in this life, this fact again and again be¬ comes apparent. In eternity, if our life is properly spent, and its great purpose answered, we shall plainly see this to be the case with regard to all those events whose occurrence we most feared. Nowhere has this truth received a more striking illustration than in the history of the disciples in their connection with their Lord. It was so in regard to His death. They thought, and in some respects it was very natural for them to think, that this would be the greatest trial they could possibly meet with. They regarded it as the blotting out of the sun from their firmament, as the destruction of all their joy, and the blighting of all their hopes. So full of the elements of misery