His passions that made him so impossible to live with will all become subdued, and softened, and sweetened, till he will be like a little child in your hands. Patience and meekness and silence, and his daily cross, are now the only passions of his heart. Perhaps all that is taking place and going on in your own house, and you do not see it or aright understand it. James did not see nor understand Jesus till Jesus was glorified. But it has been prayer that has been doing it.
Nothing does all that in any house but prayer.
You know their names, surely. This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on July 30, 2001.