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The Furnace of Affliction

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 13, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 3.

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The Furnace of Affliction.

Afflictions make some people better, and others worse, as the fire reduces some things to a plastic state, capable of being moulded to any form of usefulness and beauty; while the same mighty agent applied to other things utterly ruins them. Sickness is an affliction that almost always softens the heart, at least for a time.—Pliny's observation was correct:— “I have always noticed that we are better men when we are sick, than when we are in health”