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THE HARDEST FIGHT

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 16, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 3.

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THE HARDEST FIGHT.

By Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

THIS grace of silence under trial is one of the most rare and difficult graces; but it is one of the most pleasing to God and most conducive to strength and beauty of Christian character. None of us loves to suffer, and we all shudder at the sight of the probe or the amputating knife. But when the infinite love is engaged in cutting out a selfish lust or cutting off a diseased limb, our duty is to submit. Ah! the battle-field often requires less courage than the hospital! The onset of service, with drums beating and bugles sounding, does not so test the mettle of our graces as to be thrown down wounded, or to be commanded to lie still and suffer. To shout a battle cry at the mouth of the cannon is easier than to put our hands in our mouths and be silent because "God did it." If He is silent as to explanations of trying providences, let us be silent in our final submission. God knows what is best for us; that is enough.—T. L. Cuyler.