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HONEY FROM THE CARCASS.—

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 18, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 30, No. 1.

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HONEY FROM THE CARCASS.—

The bee sucks sweet honey out of the bitterest herb! so God will, by afflictions, teach his children to suck sweet knowledge, sweet obedience, and sweet experience out of all the bitter afflictions and trials He exercises them with. That scouring and rubbing which frets others, shall make them shine the brighter; that weight which crushes and keeps others under, shall but make them like the palm-tree, grow better and higher. Afflictions are the saint's best benefactors. Where afflictions hang heaviest, corruption hangs loosest. Grace that is hid in nature, as sweet water in rose-leaves, is the most fragrant when the fire of affliction is put under to distil it out. Grace shines the brighter for scouring, and is most glorious when it is most clouded.