Sufferings Throughout World History

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun:

and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter;

and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead

more than the living which are yet alive.

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been,

who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

 

"Our world is a vast lazar house, a scene of misery that we dare not

allow even our thoughts to dwell upon. Did we realize it as it is, the burden would be too terrible. Yet God feels it all. In order to destroy sin and its results He gave His best Beloved, and He has put it in our power, through co-operation with Him, to bring this scene of misery to an end." Education p.264 E.G.W.