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Trials: The School of Affliction
We learn lessons in the school of affliction which we could never
learn anywhere else. Somehow in the loneliness and shadow and
isolation of sorrow, God finds a way to teach us many things which we
seem unable to learn any other way. A story is told of a little bird
that was never able to learn the song his master was so anxious to
have him sing, while his cage was full of light. There was too much to
attract his attention. There were so many voices to which he listened.
He would learn a snatch of one song and a note of another and another
until he had a mixture of all the songs in the grove, but never a
separate and entire one of his own. The master at last covered his
cage, and the little bird was surrounded by darkness. In this
loneliness and darkness the little bird could listen attentively to
one song the master was trying to teach him to sing. Then, when the
cage was uncovered, he continued to sing it beautifully, to the joy of
the master's heart and the entertainment of all who heard.
