...when he felt any tendency to impatience, used to check himself thus : " The business of a Christian is to bear the will of God, as well as to do it. If I were in health I ought to be doing it, and now it is my duty to bear it." See Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness. 35....

...found his spirit tending to impatience, he would thus check himself, " The business of a Christian is to bear the will of God as well as to do it. If...could only be doing that, and that I may do now. The best thing in obedience is a regard to the will of God, and the way to that is to get our inclinations...

...his protracted illness, he checked himself with this observation, " That the business of » Christian is to bear the will of God as well as to do it If I was in health I could only be doing that, and that I can do now. If God has no more service for me...