Testimonies for the Church, Volume 8 - Ellen G. White

Chapter 45
Paul’s Experience
Copenhagen, July 17, 1886.
Paul was a man who knew what it means to be
a partaker of Christ's sufferings. You have no need
that I repeat the history of his trials. His life was
one of constant activity, notwithstanding he was
subject to many infirmities. He was continually
followed by the hatred and malice of the Jews.
They were exceedingly bitter against him and did
all in their power to hinder him in his work. Yet we
hear his voice sounding down along the line of our
time: "Our light affliction, which is but for a
moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the
things which are seen, but at the things which are
not seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal." "I reckon that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with
the glory which shall be revealed in us." (2
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