Rise by Resistance

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 3, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 27.

Rise by Resistance.

THERE is no way to rise, on earth, except by resistance. It has been pointed out that every stairway is nothing but a series of obstacles, each one of which must be overcome singly, if we would let that stairway serve its purpose and bring us to the top. So with everything in life that seems to oppose us, bear us down, or call a halt. It is not only an opportunity for going ahead, but there would be no way of making gains without these helpful resistances. One has well written, "A world in which there were no labors to be accomplished, no burdens to be borne, no storms to be endured, would be a world without true joy, honest pleasure, or noble aspiration. It would be a fool's paradise." Shall we not think of this as we are tempted to resent to-day's invitations to progress?—Sunday School Times.