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You don't know, Christian friends, how much harm some of you do by looking so gloomy and unapproachable. I remember one of my congregation telling me how, when she was a girl, she was nearly driven to shun the society of godly people by hearing the unhappy utterance of a friend of her father's, who was reputed to be a good man, but who, more than once, groaned in the hearing of herself and other young people, "Woe's me! the more grace a man has, the more he has to make him miserable." Let the world know that there is a fountain of joy and gladness.

(A. A. Bonar, D. D.)

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KJV: But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

WEB: But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;