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THE NEED OF ADVERSITY

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 54.

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THE NEED OF ADVERSITY.

By John Greenleaf Whittier

The clouds which rise with thunder, slake Our thirsty souls with rain; The blow most dreadful falls to break From off our limbs a chain; And wrongs of man to man but make The love of God more plain, As through the shadowy lens of even The eye looks farthest into heaven, On gleams of star and depths of blue The glaring sunshine never knew. —J. G. Whittier.