To every matter there is a bright as well as a dark side. Samson's lion yielded honey, and so will our adversities, if rightly considered.
Dark clouds distil bright drops, and black earth grows gay flowers.
A vein of good is to be found in every mine of evil. Faith's way of walking is to cast all care upon the Lord, and then to anticipate good results from the worst calamities. Like Gideon's men, she does not fret over the broken pitcher, but rejoices that the lamp blazes forth the more. When death itself appears, faith points to the light of resurrection beyond the grave, thus making our dying Benoni to be our living Benjamin. To Morning Reading for March 8 From Charles H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening .