But if we can get them only through self-denial, tears, anguish, and pain, we may be sure that they hide in them the very gold of God.

So it is that many of our best and richest blessings come to us in some form of rugged hardness.
Take what we call drudgery.

Life is full of it.

It begins in childhood.

There is school, with its set hours, its lessons, rules, tables, tasks, recitations.