As to the wood of Evilshaw, it was not once a year only

The struggles, temptations, and trials overcome, have done their

work of refining with a rapidity that could not have been

equalled in any other way, and though, perhaps, very imperfect

still, the journey is ever on. The reward is tenfold, yet in

proportion to what this soul has done, for we know that the

servant who best used his ten talents was made ruler over ten

cities, while he that increased his five talents by five received

five; and the Saviour in whom he trusted, by whose aid he made