The Cup of Sorrow by Theodore L. Cuyler

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 10, 1878

The Cup of Sorrow.

By Theodore L. Cuyler

ON classic cups and vases we have sometimes seen devices carved by the cunning hand of the sculptor. So around the cup of trial, which God commends to the lips of suffering Christians, are wreathed many comforting assurances. Here is one of them: "All things work together for good to them which love God." Here is another like it: "As thy day is so shall thy strength be." Afflicted friend, turn thy cup of sorrow around, and you will see engraved on it these precious words: "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." Turn it again, and read: "My grace is sufficient for thee." The whole cup is encircled with the cup of love. But it requires faith to read them. They are invisible to selfishness and blind unbelief. And God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears, in order that they may read aright his providence and his commandments.—Rev. T. L. Cuyler.