FOR SPRINGS OR SCRAP HEAP
A blacksmith, about eight years after his conversion, was approached by an intelligent unbeliever with the question: “Why is it you have so much trouble? I have been watching you since you trusted Christ as your Savior and began to ‘walk square’ and seem to love everybody, and you seem to have twice as many trials and accidents as you had before. I thought that when a man gave himself to God his troubles were over.” With a thoughtful but glowing face the blacksmith replied: “Do you see this piece of steel? It is for the springs of a carriage, but it needs to be ‘tempered.’ I heat it again, then I hammer it and bend it and shape it so it will be suitable for the carriage. Often I find the steel too brittle and it cannot be used. If so I throw it on the scrap heap. Those scraps are worth less than a cent a pound,…
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