Show Sanctified Affliction Suffering is remedial when rightly received Troubles are the took too by which God shapes up into beauty and usefulness Sorrow is Mount Sinai where one may talk talk with God face to face tace if It he will not ot be afraid ol of l the thunder and lightning The black threads threads' in the loom are essential to ta the perfection of the pattern as anthe art are the white Trials are the rough fileto file fila filato tile to rub the dust off oft our virtues the they are the sharp whirring wheels that cut and polish the jewels of chara character t ri they are the fiery furnace purging away the dross that tho pure gold may appear they are the medicineS medicine bitter but hut healing that cure us of out Gut moral maladies Sanctified affliction are the shadows of Gods God's wings they show us our weakness and drive us to Christ ChrIsi They wean wern us from the tha world and draw us towards heaven heaTeD Thank God for tor the cross croal the truest philosophy and the purest puree Christianity are one |