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revelation, and liad lifted your head till it seemed to hold communion with 
the regions of Heaven; you had defied the results of temptation to shake 
you from your proud standing. But the storm came,— the hour of tribula¬ 
tion —the winds blew, the rains fell, and—what happened?—alas! your 
virtue bent down.” 
But now, that being past, what can you do for the future ? what shall 
you do ? or rather, what shall we do ? 
As a man who has to walk upon a narrow pass, with a precipice on 
either side, will fix his eye as steadily as possible at the point whereat he 
aims, and forbear casting it below or around him, so let us, settling our 
looks upon the Heaven which we desire to reach, hasten forward on our 
slippery path, and steady our steps, and save them more carefully from 
another perilous fall, by the unity of our purpose, by the constancy of our 
efforts,and—to say all in a word—by patient cross-bearing. And so, let’s 
then, take up our Cross, and say to ourselves: 
“Only a little while 
Of walking with weary feet, 
Patiently over the thorny way 
That leads to the golden street.” 
“Suffer if God shall will 
And work for Him while we may, 
From Calvary's Cross to Zion's Crown 
Is only a little wayP 
Anon. 
