Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1911 — Our Own Burden. [ARTICLE]

Our Own Burden.

Every man bears his own burden, fights his own battles, walks in the path which no other feet have'trodden. God alone knows us through and through. And he loves us, as Keble says, better than he knows. He hag Isolated us from all besides that he alone may have our perfected confidence, and that we may acquire the habit of looking to him alone for perfect sympathy. He will come into the solitude in which the soul dwells and make the darknss bright • with hie presence and break the monotonous silence with words of love. We have him only to speak to; he alone can understand us. He will rejoice with us when we rejoice and weep with us when we weep. The heart knoweth Its own bitterness; God knows It too; and though a stranger cannot intermeddle with its joy, ha whose temple and dwelling place is the soul that loves him is no stranger, but the soul’s most intimate and only friend. —R. W. Dale.