Joseph, suffering?
"The school of adversity is the best school possible, but its tuition fees are
high!"
"...The lesson of Joseph's life is unmistakable. It is... that
God works when His hand is not apparent, and often when it would seem as if He
must be taking no notice, and by means that seem to exclude the possibility of
His being at work. The conclusion is comforting to those who commit their way to
God. It may seem to them that God is not only not working with them, but
actually working against them. Let them remember the agony of Joseph in the pit,
in slavery, in false imprisonment, and learn that the darkest paths of their
life may be the ways appointed for them to reach liberty and life, wealth and
honor -- yea, a throne in the kingdom of the antitypical Joseph, who himself had
to tread the dark and tearful valley of humiliation, and who, in the days of his
glory, will introduce all his brethren, amongst many bright stars, to the most
interesting of Jacob's sons" (WP 70).
