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<p>&quot;Learn from Me, for I am <em>gentle </em>and <em>humble</em> in heart.&quot; Matthew 11:29 <br />
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    We all fail in the <strong>life-lessons</strong> which our great Teacher sets for us. The hardest <em>school-tasks</em> are easily mastered — in comparison with the lessons of:<br />
    patience,<br />
    sweet temper,<br />
    forgiveness,<br />
    unselfishness,<br />
    gentleness,<br />
    humility,<br />
    purity,<br />
    contentment. <br />
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    Even at best — we can learn these lessons but slowly. And though but little seems to come from our <em>yearnings and struggling after Christ-likeness</em> — yet God honours the yearning and the striving. While we sit in the shadows of weariness, disheartened with our failures — He carries on the work within us, and with His own hands produces the divine beauty in our souls.