p. 139 | TRIALS PRODUCTIVE OF GOOD.-

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 19, 1861

TRIALS PRODUCTIVE OF GOOD.—

I remember, says Mr. Whitefield, some years ago, when I was at Shields, I went into a glass house; and standing very attentive, I saw several masses of burning glass, of various forms. The workmen took a piece of glass and put it into one furnace, then he put it into a second, and then into a third. I said to him:

“Why do you pass this through so many fires?”

He answered, “Oh, sir, the first was not hot enough, nor the second, and therefore we put it into a third, and that will make it transparent.”

This furnished Mr. W. with a useful hint, that we must be tried, and exercised with many fires, until our dross be purged away, and we are made fit for the owner's use.