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in The Gospel Messenger vol.17 no.5 (May 1895)
I AM DEEPLY TOUCHED by what you say in reference to
your infirmities, but I am sure your afflictions, which Paul said
endure for a moment, work for you a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory. You do not live as Adam did in Eden,
surrounded by every good thing, having daily communion with
God, having so little appreciation of them, and such an entire
absence of faith as to never notice, much less eat of the tree of
life, and live forever. Your appreciation and longing desire for
the fruit of that tree, and your growing feeling of helplessness
and calling on God, is the glory, in my opinion, which these
afflictions are working for you. How much more exceeding and
eternal are they than the glory which health, wealth, and the
honors of this world bring to us. Jesus said that which is highly
esteemed with men is an abomination in the sight of God, and
yet there is that about us which leads us to desire such esteem.
Affliction and trial is the sponge which absorbs it from us. |
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