Every doctrine, as well as every word of God, is only effectually profitable as it is worked out in the soul's deep experience. Head-knowledge will not do. It enables us to make no headway towards heaven, nor does it unfold to us the tenderness of Christ, or the real character of God. The truth as it is in Jesus is more known in one deep trial, than in a year of smooth sailing. Worldly prosperity is but indifferent soil for the Christian to grow in. It rather stunts the soul; and nothing but an Almighty arm can save from the sleep of death. -Selected.