“God often sends us trials that our graces may be discovered.” Charles spoke with precision. “God often takes away our comforts and our privileges in order to make us better Christians. He trains His soldiers, not in tents of easy and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them forge through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their back.”
