p. 123 | Adversity a Blessing

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1861

Adversity a Blessing.

ADVERSITY is very often a blessing in disguise, which by detaching us from earth and drawing us toward heaven, gives us, in the assurance of lasting joys, an abundant recompense for the loss of transient ones. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." Many a man in losing his fortune has found himself, and been ruined into salvation; for though God demands the whole heart, which we could not give him when we shared it with the world, he will never reject the broken one, which we offer him in our hour of sadness and reverse. Misfortunes are moral bitters, which frequently restore the healthy tone of the mind, after it has been cloyed and sickened by the sweets of prosperity. The spoilt children of the world, like their juvenile namesakes, are generally a source of unhappiness to others, without being happy in themselves.