History teaches that our most valuable possessions in rights and privileges, in art and literature have come tous out of times of hard~ ship and suffering. The fires. of persecution gave us the "greatest heroes of the Church, and in the fire they wrought out the most priceless possessions ut the Christi an Church, Now, the law of compensation is a divine aw and therefore I have no hesitation in saying! that in its truest and deepest sense! the beneficent working of the law'
only experienced by those who! follow The compensations] of the worldly life area sham and 8 delusion. Like the fich max of the parable, we may seem to have everything, but in our heart hearts we know that we are poorer the things that make for true! happiness than the meanest beg. gar on the street. The apparent Toss that the Christian suffers is y gain You have to deny yourself what others gain, but you gain what others are denied. You! Toose in worldly pleasure, but you rain in character, in purity," in tenderness, in insight, in true happiness.
Let me turn back for just a moment. I have tried to show how in our experience we have found apparent loss to be in reality en-ichment. God has taken away. order' that he may give an added blessing. At the moment we may lonly see the cross, an overwhelming disappointment, sickness or even the faking away of someone we love, and then the Jaw of - compensation Degins to operate. Here let give just a word of warning—we may Yefuse the compensations of God. Losses may only harden us, death bring bitterness and enmity, Dbut for this we cannot Dlame any but ourselves.
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