Pearls in Christ’s Crown.
SOME writer thus consoles Christian sufferers: “Oh! the wisdom, goodness, and mercy of God! He can take the pains and agonies of the sick one; and work them all into jewels which will sparkle in the crown of Christ forever! All our sorrows and suffering, and our very tears, will thus become a part of his own glorious crown. We wonder often that the good, the meek, are made to suffer so long and so fearfully; but when we look upon the jewels which he thus makes up, we shall cease to wonder. Not one pang or sorrow could be spared, and have the jewels in his crown that they are. O sufferer on the bed of pain! our Lord makes pearls for the crown of earthly monarchs; and, in the same way, he is fitting thee to be a crown of glory in his own diadem. Patiently, patiently suffer his will, and thou wilt hereafter see that it was all to make thee more glorious in the eternal kingdom.”