Treasures of Adversity

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 28, 1876

Treasures of Adversity

It takes a touch of adversity, to show whether a man is a man at all, just as it needs the touch of frost to bring out the glories of the trees. Even on a dark day in October how royally the woods flame out! Under what glorious banners they march to meet the winter! What unmatched splendor, rich as sunset skies, tender as the rainbow, shine out over the whole earth! Those splendors are the treasures that the trees were silently laying up when the summer’s sun flooded them all day long. And shall a man, in his time of prosperity, lay up no store of sunshine in his inner self, whereby, when darker days come on, he shall be luminous with courage and good cheer?