5. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. If no good was in the present, memory ransacked the past to find
consolation. It is our duty to search for comfort, and not in sullen indolence
to yield to despair; and there is scarcely any theme more likely to prove
consolatory than that which deals with the years of olden time, when the Lord’s
faithfulness was tried and proved by hosts of his people. Yet even this created
depression rather than delight in the good man’s soul, for he contrasted his
own mournful condition with all that was bright in the venerable experiences of
ancient saints, and so complained the more. Ah, sad calamity of a jaundiced
mind to see nothing as it should be seen, but everything as through a veil of
mist.
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