Troubles Increased

"Sometimes," says John Newton, "I compare the troubles we have to undergo in the course of a year to a bundle of faggots far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry to-day, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage if wo would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our trouble by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to our load before we are required to bear it."