Another day of evil is, _Suffering persecution from the world for the truth’s sake_; or from those who profess a part of the truth. Such may hate you, nay the Saviour says they _shall_ hate you, and say all manner of evil against you—_all manner_, not a few hard and ill-natured things, but any thing disrespectful, spiteful, and disgraceful. This may be the lot of my Brother—this you will find very hard, seeing you have been kind to all, and acted as upright before men as you could, never deserving this from man,—yet meeting with it. Defamation of character, endeavouring to injure you in your situation, trying to prejudice all your friends against you, and to stir up your own household to oppose you. But these things _will_ they do to you, because, says the Saviour, _They have not known the Father nor me_. However, you will not be wholly destitute of some who will be raised up for your good. Hence the promise to the persecuted saint, _And I will cause you to be well entreated in the day of evil_. This was God’s promise to poor Jeremiah; and the Saviour gives the command, _Let my out-casts dwell with thee_, _Moab_, _be thou a covert to him_, _from the face of the spoiler_. Thus the Lord will take care of you in time of persecution, national troubles, which the children of God must feel in their degree, through the loss of trade, bankruptcies, a long war, the high price of provisions, and the scarcity of every national blessing; yet, depend upon it, the Lord will find bread for you. So David encourages the people of God, _I have been young and now am old_, _yet I never saw __the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging of bread_. Or, as the learned say, it should be rendered, _though_ begging of bread, _yet_ not forsaken. Bread and water the Lord has promised you, and remembering that you are one of his prisoners, that he is bound to maintain _you_, Friends will be raised up, a supply will be sent in from the most unlikely quarters. _And the earth helped the woman.—I have commanded the Ravens to feed thee there_. Thus you shall not want in the day of evil. You may meet with many family troubles as Jacob did, and say with that dear Patriarch, at the close of your life, _Few and evil have the days of my life been_. Many evils have I met with from my children and relations, enough to break a heart of stone. My relations were envious, oppressive, cruel, and ungrateful. My children’s conduct often pierced my heart.—I have been in many wants and dangers, but the Lord that redeemed me from all evil, has thus far led me on, and I am now going home, for I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.