The angels of affliction',

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From that dull, dead block of marble, there is evoked 
by the artist's tools a form radiant with beauty. 

The angels of affliction are often God's best sculptors. 
By their sharp chiselling, stroke after stroke, loveless 
lives have been made lovely, common people have 
become great, dead lives have been quickened into 
the likeness of Christ—transformed into His image.

No! not, as we have said, "angels." The Lord of angels 
delegates this work to no subordinates. And when the 
shaping and moulding and fashioning are completed, the 
legend is inscribed—"Made perfect through suffering!"