Here is an excerpt: "Tonight’s subject is: “Whom God Has Afflicted.” “Whom God has afflicted for Secret Ends, He comforts and Heals and calls them Friends.” [Blake, from “The Everlasting Gospel”]. In the 119th Psalm, it says: “This my comfort in my affliction That thy promise gives me life. Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I keep thy word. It is good for me that I was afflicted, That I might learn thy statutes.” (Psalm 119:5, 67, 71). And then we are told in the book of Job, the 36thchapter: “He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.” (Job 36:15)."