Purpose in Trials

Life is full of trials; it should also be full of triumphs. Difficulties should be neutralized by successes. Shall we become restive, uneasy and fretful under trials? Shall we impugn the wisdom or goodness, or both, of the all-wise and beneficent Creator of the universe for permitting this state of things — not perceiving in our weakness that these very obstacles are designed by an all-wise Creator to give strength and vigor to the mind, and tone to the moral character? They furnish the discipline necessary to the proper development of both mental and moral faculties. The human mind seems to demand difficulties to fairly develop its powers.--Anon