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For he cares not whether it he with things true or false that he abuses 
and deceives you, whether he overthrow you with the love of things pres¬ 
ent, or the fear of things to come. 
Let not, therefore, your heart he troubled, and let it not fear. 
Believe in God, and trust in His most tender mercies. 
When you think, lie is far from you, He is often nearest to you. 
Hence, dissipate all moodiness, dispel every dreary foreboding. 
When you judge that almost all is lost, then oftentimes it is that you 
are in the way of the greatest gain of merit. 
All is not lost when anything falls out otherwise than you would 
have it. 
You must not judge according to your present feeling; nor give your¬ 
self up in such manner to any trouble, from whence soever it comes; nor 
take it so as if all hope were gone of being delivered out of it.” 
“Under the storm and the cloud to-day, 
And to-day the hard peril and pain— 
To-morrow the stone shall be rolled away, 
For the sunshine shall follow the rain. 
Merciful Father, I will not complain, 
I know that the sunshine shall follow again!* 
—Joaquin Miller. 
