Suffering is so universally staggering in its magnitude, the world so unjust, so unsatisfying, life so short and time so fleeting, it seems as if this earthly life was never intended by God to be a place where human happiness could find its full fruition; but a place where Christ-imparted character can, by suffering and trial, be matured and sweetened and so prepared for the unending expansion of the heavenly life. Hence there must be a divine purpose...