Nothing happens without the Lord, not even the fall to the earth of one sparrow. This gives to God His proper place in all things occurrent and happening ; not only is He, in being, before all, but in all that occurs, His hand is the most important feature in the case. Satan could not act against Job or Paul without divine permission; and whatever Satan might mean in the one case or the other, God meant blessing, pure blessing, for His servants, and that eternal blessing. I hear you are depressed-it matters little what men call it-to me, as having one infinitesimal of faith, it is " of God," and for the blessing of yourself and husband. That it is, though coming through the body and mind, yet "of God," I doubt not; for that is one way in which He works, in breaking our plans of earthly joy, to make us seek our all in Him. (You know the Olney hymn, "I asked the Lord might grow.") The extent to which we are dependent upon circumstances, around and within ourselves, little know till we get stripped of them, and among perhaps of the feeling of joy which we mistook for Faith is taking God at His word, saying, " Let God true and every man a liar." The effect of this is tri-ump, often with joy, but when of the purer and deeper and without joy, and we have then sometimes to give the to our own inward feelings, as much as to the thoughts others all around us. i Peter gives us a case of it, so Cor. 12:G.V.W.