Through the agonies of great trial',

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"You, O God, have purified us like silver
melted in a crucible." Psalm 66:10

As the olives must be crushed for the oil to flow; 
as the grapes must be bruised in the wine-press 
that the vats may be filled; as the gold comes out 
refined from the furnace—so, through the agonies 
of great trial, the best Christian graces are 
developed.

"I have refined you in the furnace of suffering." 
Isaiah 48:10