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heaven is use, too. That glory goes not with life.

Then "Trust in all things high" dwells within us, and, as we trust others, we make ourselves worthy of trust; guarding another's confidence as our birthright, never deceiving or betraying it, for such betrayal makes sore hearts and lonely lives. We are neither jealous nor suspicious, and believe another right until we know the contrary. Much of our early trust passes away from us like an outgrown garment. Knowledge proves insufficient, creeds shrink before experience, friendships wither, ideals pass not into realities; but trust in the universe deepens us years add wisdom. It is that trust which enables us, whatever heaven may be, to bear the bitter fact that we no longer have father or mother, hushand or child,—that we are helpless, often homeless. Hardest of all is it, at times, to trust God's righteousness, which rans so adverse to our ideas of right. Why, if we did not

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