Excerpt from Storms and Sunshine of a Soldier's Life, Vol. 2: Lt. General Colin Mackenzie, C. B., 1825-1881
It is by privation, not unfrequently by disaster, that God qualifies souls for the highest ends. - ker's Sermons, p. 167.
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