Help from Sorrow | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1883

Help from Sorrow.

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the psalms were born in a wilderness. Most of the epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards indited, and we may thank Bedford jail for the "Pilgrim's Progress."

All the foremost worthies of our world, all the spiritual heroes of our race, have been men of sorrow and acquainted with grief. Take comfort afflicted Christian! You have often prayed to be made of some use in the world before you die, and now the answer to that prayer has come. God tries you because in some way he is about to use you; for your history will furnish no exception to the rule that when God is about to make preeminent use of a man, he puts him in the fire.—Home Journal.