CHAPTER XXIX. Be Hopeful

Be Hopeful

INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER XXIX

BY H. L. HASTINGS

Hope leads from goal to goal, And opens still, and opens on the soul; Till lengthen’d on to faith, and unconfin’d, It pours the bliss that fills up all the mind. —Pope.

Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor or caution.

—Johnson.

Owls hoot in the night; larks sing in the morning. The children of darkness riot and groan in their gloom. The children of light have “Songs in the night,” (Job 35:10), and “Joy cometh in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5). God stands by those who stand by Him. If you hope in God, your hopes will never fail. He promises us the life that now is, and that which is to come. He can make this life a life of gladness, and the everlasting life a life of endless peace and pleasure.

“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” (Romans 15:13).