Good Out of Dark Days

Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

Good Out of Dark Days

MANY of the darkest days in history have borne the choicest fruit to the glory of God and the good of man. It was a dark day when Israel groaned in the bitterness of the Egyptian bondage. But if the bondage had been less bitter, Israel would have rested content in Egypt; out of the bondage came the exodus, the Messiah. It was a dark day when the ardent, brave, eloquent Stephen, hope of the early church, was stoned; but out of that day came Paul. It was a dark day when the persecution that arose about Stephen ravaged the disciples; but out of it came the world-wide preaching of the gospel. It was a dark day when the Puritans, finding no rest for the sole of their feet, sailed from the Old World; but out of it came America. Darkest of all days was that on which the sun hid his face from the Divine Man expiring on Calvary; yet all our hopes and all our happiness come from that day.—National Baptist.