p. 363 | In a Tunnel but Safe by Uriah Smith

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1875

In a Tunnel but Safe.

By Uriah Smith

At Stuttgart a man came to me in the depth of gloom, saying, "Oh, Mr. Smith, I was so filled with joy in the meeting yesterday, and now it is all gone—all—and I do not know what to do. It is as dark as night!"

"I am so glad," I quietly remarked.

He looked at me in astonishment,—"What do you mean?"

"Yesterday," I remarked, "God gave you joy, and to day he sees that you are resting on your emotions instead of on Christ, and he has taken them away in order to turn you to Christ. You have lost your joy but you have Christ none the less. "Did you ever," I continued, "pass through a railway tunnel?"

"Yes, often."

"Did you, because it was dark, become melancholy and alarmed?"

"Of course not," he said.

"And did you," I asked, "after a while come out again into the light—" "I am out now" he said interrupting me—"It is all right, feelings or no feelings."—R. P. S.