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by L B Cowman
Through the Fire
"So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more
than his beginning" (Job 42:12).
Through his griefs Job came to his heritage. He was tried that his godliness
might be confirmed. Are not my troubles intended to deepen my character and to
robe me in graces I had little of before? I come to my glory through eclipses,
tears, death. My ripest fruit grows against the roughest wall. Job's afflictions
left him with higher conceptions of God and lowlier thoughts of himself. "Now,"
he cried, "mine eye seeth thee.
And if, through pain and loss, I feel God so near in His majesty that I bend low
before Him and pray, "Thy will be done," I gain very much. God gave Job glimpses
of the future glory. In those wearisome days and nights, he penetrated within
the veil, and could say, "I know that my Redeemer liveth." Surely the latter end
of Job was more blessed than the beginning.--In the Hour of Silence
"Trouble never comes to a man unless she brings a nugget of gold in her hand."
Apparent adversity will finally turn out to be the advantage of the right if we
are only willing to keep on working and to wait patiently. How steadfastly the
great victor souls have kept at their work, dauntless and unafraid! There are
blessings which we cannot obtain if we cannot accept and endure suffering. There
are joys that can come to us only through sorrow. There are revealings of Divine
truth which we can get only when earth's lights have gone out. There are
harvests which can grow only after the plowshare has done its work.--Selected
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters
are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering
with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of
Heaven. --Chapin
I shall know by the gleam and glitter
Of the golden chain you wear,
By your heart's calm strength in loving,
Of the fire you have had to bear.
Beat on, true heart, forever;
Shine bright, strong golden chain;
And bless the cleansing fire
And the furnace of living pain!
--Adelaide Proctor
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