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What to Do with Trouble

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 16, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 24.

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What to Do with Trouble.

WHEN we are fully conscious that the cup of adversity lifted to our lips by the hand of God, is lifted by one who tenderly loves us, and whom we supremely love, it becomes sweet—even as the bitter waters of Marah became sweet when touched by the wand of the prophet. Says a great writer—alluding to a fact in natural history—"The cutting, irritating grain of sand, which by accident or incaution has got within the shell of the pearl oyster, incites the living inmate to secrete from its own resources the means of coating the intrusive substance, and a pearl is the result. And is it not, or may it not be even so with the irregularities and unevenness of health and fortune in our own case? We too, may turn diseases into pearls."