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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Sunday, May 17, 2026</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction, bereavement, that they have been in danger of overlooking the other and more obvious side: that by every joy, by every favor, by every sign of prosperity&mdash;yea, and by these chiefly&mdash;God designs to educate and discipline His children. This one-sided view of the truth has made many morbid, gloomy Christians, who look for God&rsquo;s hand only in the lightning and never think of seeing it in the sunlight.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndac.htm#ClarkFE\">F. E. Clark</A> (1851-1927), included in <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndth.htm#LeavesGold\"><I>Leaves of Gold</I></A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndac.htm#Coslett\">Evan S. Coslett</A> &amp; Clyde Francis Lytle, ed. [1948], Honesdale, Pa.: Coslett Publishing Company, 1938, p. 84");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=e7MqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA199&dq=%22given+to+the+disciplinary+effects+of+sorrow%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ps.+145:9;+107:8;+65:9-13;+Nahum+1:7;+Matt.+5:44-45;+Acts+14:17;+17:25>Ps. 145:9; 107:8; 65:9-13; Nahum 1:7; Matt. 5:44-45; Acts 14:17; 17:25</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Affliction\">Affliction</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Bereavement\">Bereavement</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Child\">Child</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Discipline\">Discipline</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Gloom\">Gloom</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Sorrow\">Sorrow</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Weakness\">Weakness</A>)");
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