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Times of Improvement

Suffering times are a Christian's best-improving times.


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A Prayer for Affliction

O may God put me into one furnace after another, that my soul may be transparent; that I may see God as he is.


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Let the Winds Blow

We cannot be established except by suffering. It is of no use our hoping that we shall be well-rooted if no March winds have passed over us. The young ...


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What Good Is Pain?

Sometimes it is spiritual pain which makes us aware that we need a transfusion. Just as physical pain is a marvel for the human body, an early warning ...


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Where Would We Be Without Pain?

Pain can serve a definite purpose in our lives. Dr. Paul Brand of Carville, Louisiana, one of the world's foremost experts on leprosy, describes how ...


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Saved by Skinned Knees

My 2-year-old and I were walking along a busy street when suddenly she broke loose of my grasp and ran ahead of me. I rounded the corner after her, only ...


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Suffering Is a Certainty

We must be made perfect by sufferings. If we do not meet them in our younger days, we shall certainly have them in the decline of life.


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Sun Alone Creates a Desert

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.


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When God Says No

A young pastor friend has ... been through the trial of his life. When I saw him recently, he asked me, "What do you do when God doesn't say ...


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Pain Precedes Joy

I don't envy those who have never known any pain, physical or spiritual, because I strongly suspect that the capacity for pain and the capacity for ...


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