Afflictions as God’s Messengers
By Golden Censor
AFFLICTIONS and privations are, or should be, if we will hear their voice, God's messengers to mellow and train us for grander work. Even Moses, the meek man, was driven into forty years of exile and hardship, just at the time he saw his mission of delivering his people rising before him. The great work was there to be done, but he was not ready to do it; his righteous wrath had led him into violence, till he had slain a man; and this same would probably have led him to attempt the release of his people by some John Brown raid, of force, which would mean defeat and destruction. God is fitting us for his work, and we should cheerfully endure the schooling of afflictions.—Golden Censor.