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Trials Are Blessings

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 19, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 41.

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Trials Are Blessings.

If adverse winds arise and blow, Around our floating bark, May we not then begin to know That light succeeds the dark? And tho' the dread, tempestuous waves, Do waft us to the strand, May we not know that God is there, To hold us in his hand?
Trials are jewels to the soul, And never come in vain— They shine around that final goal, Where pleasures banish pain. Then if they come, should we repine, And dread them as a foe? O, if we ask the Great Divine, The answer will be, No!
The stalwart oak that often bends Will surely live the longer, 'Tis only help that nature lends, To make its roots grow stronger. And so with discipline to us— No part of it is vain— And therefore let us falter not, But rise and try again.
—Sel.