Thy Will Be Done

A celebrated divine of New England tells us that, soon after the death of his wife, his two lovely children were taken from him within a few hours of each other. "My cup of sorrow," he says, "was filled to the brim. I stood n few moments and felt at first as if I could not submit to such a complicated affliction. My heart rose in all its strength against the government of God, and then suddenly sank uuder its distress in a way that greatly alarmed me. I sprang up and said to myself, 'I am going into distraction; I must submit, or I am undone forever.' In a few moments I was perfectly calm and resigned to the will of God. I never enjoyed greater happiness than during that day and the next. My mind was full of God, and I used to look over toward the burying-ground and long for the time when I could be laid beside my departed wife and my little ones."