Darkness seems to be as necessary to life and growth in this
world as is light. An earnest, tireless worker for Christ who
has recently suffered through months of illness, writes a cheery
word of sympathy to a fellow sufferer, and adds about herself:
“It is a long time since I have done a day’s work; it is only a
half-hour’s work, or maybe fifteen minutes at a time. And many
days have been in a dark room. I wonder, sometimes, if a ‘dark
room’ is as necessary for the developing of character as it is
for the developing of negatives. If so, perhaps a time will come
when I can look back upon the dark-room days with thankfulness.
Just now, I want to work.” To wait and to trust, if God directs
that, even while one longs to be out in the light and at work,
is to gain and grow in the development which only the dark room
can give. (Text.)
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=Darkness Frightens=--See FEAR OF MAN.