Success, Ultimate—See [Experiment].
SUFFERING
Oberlin, the illustrious pastor of the Ban de la Roche, used the following figure in comforting the sorrow of an afflicted lady:
Dear madam, I have now before me two stones; they are alike in color, they are of the same water, clear, pure and clean. But there is a great difference between them; one has a dazzling brightness, the other is quite dull. What is the reason of this difference? The one has been carefully cut, the other hardly touched. Now, had these stones been endowed with life, so as to have been capable of feeling what they underwent, the one which had received eighty cuts would have thought itself very unhappy, and would have envied the fate of the other, which, having received but eight, had undergone but a tenth part of its own sufferings. Yet the stone which had suffered little is dim and lusterless; the stone which has suffered greatly shines forth in dazzling brilliancy.
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SUFFERING, FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST’S
John B. Tabb expresses the requirement laid on true disciples of Jesus, in this verse:
In patience, as in labor, must thou be
A follower of me,
Whose hands and feet, when most I wrought for thee,