Rough Work by Sol.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1875

Rough Work.

By Sol.

It is rough work that polishes. Look at the pebbles on the shore. Far inland, where some arm of the sea thrusts itself deep into a salt loch, and lies girdled by the mountains, sheltered from the storm that agitates the deep, the pebbles on the beach are rough, not beautiful—angular, not rounded. It is where the long, white lines of breakers roar, and the rattling shingle is rolled about the strand, that its pebbles are rounded and polished.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect his people.—Sol.