Mighty forces often lie latent in nature until peculiar
conditions elicit them. The trembling dew-drop is an electric
accumulator, and within its silvery cells is stored a vast
energy; the rain-drop and the snowflake are the sport of the
wind, but, converted into steam, we are astonished at their
potentiality; the tiny seed seems weakness itself, yet,
beginning to germinate, it rends the rock like a thunderbolt.
Thus is it, only in a far more eminent degree, with human nature
strengthened by the indwelling Spirit of God. In the first hours of
trial we may be bewildered, stunned, staggered, but the latent forces
of our nature, stimulated into action, render us equal to the most
trying situation and the most trying moment.--W. L. WATKINSON,
“The Transfigured Sackcloth.”
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