ABSTRACT
Since suffering is a wholesome discipline, it is not difficult to understand how even the virtuous may be called upon to endure it in God’s righteous scheme. He would have the good made better still, and to this end He uses pain with its ennobling effects. Pain is a moral discipline. But it is something else. In a lower sense, too, it is the saviour of humanity, the seed of its happiness. Pain, in the light of scientific research, is seen to be a danger-signal, alarming and terrifying like the shriek of a fog-horn at sea, but a warning that shields many a life from destruction. The gazelle, for instance, has acquired the swiftness which is her sole defence against her formidable enemies only as the result of ages of painful experience. Many a transgressor pays his penalty in secret.
