A deadly coalmine explosion in Northern England left scores of miners trapped underground, beyond help. The large crowd that gathered at the mouth of the mine included many relatives of the dead and dying miners.

"It is very difficult for us to understand why God should let such an awful tragedy happen," said Handley Moule, a clergyman who was asked to speak to the crowd. "I have at home an old bookmark given me by my mother. It is woven in silk, and when I look at the wrong side of it, I see nothing but a tangled mass of threads. It looks like a big mistake! One would think that whoever made it didn't know what she was doing. But when I turn it over and look at the right side, I see there, beautifully embroidered, the message, 'God is love!' We are looking at this tragedy from the wrong side. Someday we shall view it from another standpoint and we shall understand."

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.