a novice in Christ; these frame the heavenly crown. I will give an everlasting reward for a short labor, and infinite glory for passing shame.
Do you think that you will always have spiritual consolations at your will? My saints had many afflictions, and sundry temptations, and great forsakings. Nevertheless in all these they bore themselves patiently, and trusted rather in God than in themselves; knowing “that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us”.† Will you have that at once, which many after tears and great labors have hardly obtained?
“Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart”.†  Do not distrust, do not leave your place, but steadily expose both body and soul for the glory of God, and I will reward you most fully; “I will be with [you] in trouble”.† •