CH SPURGEON WROTE- A MAN WHO WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH SUFFERING himself , these words,

“ I owe everything to the FURNACE, hammer and File, The best piece of furniture in my house has been THE CROSS. My greatest enricher has been personal PAIN, and for that I Thank God. I can sing with the poet; “God in Israel sows the seeds Of affliction pain, and toil’ These spring up and choke the weeds Which would else overspread the soil.”