f our need and the might of our creed
Are faith, patience, courage, and time."

But to say that the faithfulness of God cannot be fully measured now is
not to say that it cannot be measured at all. Do justly, love mercy,
and walk humbly with God, and our life will not only come out right at
the end, it will come out right all the way. The lesson for us to
learn is to labour and to wait; to give God and ourselves space to work
in. Whether God is in His heaven or not, of this I am sure, that,
given time, right always comes to its own, and all wrong, sooner or
later, is defeat and disaster. Time forgets nothing, it omits nothing
which God requires at our hands. It may not be ours to choose our
task, but we can choose to do it well. What is really everyday
religion is to do common things in an uncommon spirit. There is
nothing for us in the world that needs a lie; nothing that excuses us
from the wise admonition--

"Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views by thy hand no worthy action done."

Then let us just go on doing the highest we know, and the best we can.
The reward may not seem to be to-day, nor yet to-morrow; but we shall
see that it was everyday and all the way, when we look back upon it
from the shores of the life eternal. Let us trust the faithful God,
and we shall be taught to regard the troubles that test, and the
limitations that perplex us, as the agents of His Providence through
the courses of time. And as we see in each new revelation of His
goodness and mercy towards us an added circle of splendour in His halo
of light, we shall learn to say of ourselves, and the race of which we
form a part--

"The God of Truth and Love,
The Ancient Friend of man,
Makes every age an onward stage,
And has, since time began;
Sing ye praises, oh, sing praises,
God has a glorious plan."

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