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All wish
frequently, no doubt, that the testings were all over and that we
were accepted to a place among the overcomers; but patience and
faith and trust are to do a refining work in our hearts, making us
mellow, willing and obedient to the Lord. Let the good work go on.
Let us rejoice if our trials have brought us lessons of any kind
that are profitable to us that have tended to make us stronger in
character, more firm for truth and righteousness, more aware of our
own weaknesses, and more on guard against the same. Even those
conflicts which have resulted in only partial victories have
possibly been to our advantage. Even on points in which there may
have been absolute failure, the result may be a strengthening of
character, a crystallization of determination for greater zeal in
that direction again, and a humility of heart before the Lord in
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