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The Purpose of the Trial

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 20, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 38.

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The Purpose of the Trial

How dark are the paths in which God's faithful ones are compelled to tread! How fierce the fires in which the pure gold of their principle is tested! But when the patient feet have plodded through the darkness, the glory is the brighter for the gloom, and the gold is burnished by the flame into a beauty unparalleled before. Not in caprice of power, nor lessening of love, does the Father permit the trial of the child; but we wrestle with the angel in the dark, that, with thews of iron, we may be the stronger at the breaking of the day.— At W. Morley Punshon.