How We Take Trials by Sunday School Times

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 28.

How We Take Trials

By Sunday School Times

THE common frets of every-day life may hurt our lives. No other mood is more common than worry. We can think of many reasons why we should not be anxious, but one of the gravest of all is that it injures our usefulness to others. For it harms us deeply and irremediably. It writes fear and fret on our faces. It blots out the freshness and beauty of our spirits. It makes us wrinkled and old before our time. It takes the zest out of our life. It makes all the world less bright for us. It dims our eyes so that we can not see the blue skies and the stars, nor show them to others. It destroys our vigor and enthusiasm. We do not know how seriously and ruinously we are hurting our own life and others’ if we are letting care into our heart.

So that is the problem of Christian life,—to go through life, however hard it may be, and take no marring, no soiling, no injury whatever. One said of another, “Did you notice how hard her face is?” It was the face of a young girl in years, but it looked old and stern, as if it had lost all its gentleness. It was pathetic to look upon. It told of a life that had lost almost everything that is worth while in living. Yet the experiences in which that life had been hurt and its beauty spoiled, if they had been met in a true Christian way, would have made the face beautiful and the life rich and radiant.—Sunday School Times.