"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical"

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There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock