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The Safety of Danger

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 22, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 34.

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The Safety of Danger

A SAFE place is a perilous place to be in, when God calls to a place of danger. The only place of real safety is the place to which God calls. If that is a place of sorrow, or stress, or staggering difficulty, or physical or even spiritual peril, we shall find greater safety there in companionship with God than in any spot that is free from those perils, but to which he has not called us. The very effort on our part that is necessary to resist and overcome the danger which God has asked us to meet, may furnish the greater safety of which we are in need. Freezing cold is not commonly as conducive to healthy plant life as is a carefully protected hot-house. But take certain plants from the peril of the nipping exposure, and put them in the hot-house, and you have ended their life: the exposed place of danger was their only place of safety, for that is where God meant them to grow and to thrive. God knows best; his assignments are to be trusted.—Sunday School Times.