Ripening Corn

‘’^Before corn be ripened it jteedeth all Jd7ids of weather. The husbandman is glad of showers as well as sunshine; rainy weather is troublesome but sometimes the season requireth it.’ Even so the various conditions of man’s life are needful to ripen him for the life to come. Sorrows and joys, depressions and exhilarations, have all their part to play in the completion of Christian character. Were one grief of a behever’s career omitted, it may be he would never be prepared for heaven: the slightest change might mar the ultimate result. God, who knows best how to ripen both corn and men, ordereth all things according to the counsel of his will, and it is our wisdom to believe in the infallible prudence which arranges all the details of a believing life. “All things work together for good.”