Trouble (so far from being evidence of desertion) is a means employed in God’s hands to lay the foundation of future joy and blessedness. Let His children then be comforted and strengthened to endure even the deepest and most inexplicable affliction. Let them learn to see God in the darkness and to feel His hand in the tempest. Let them beware of the folly of Job’s three friends, rebuked of God. Let them know that this time of our pilgrimage is the night, and that though weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning — and that joy a joy prepared by the weeping. Let them apply the consolation Christ has given them: “Blessed are ye that weep now, for ye shall be comforted.”
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One