Sickness, its trials and blessings.

  • Maurice, Priscilla, 1810-
Date:
1859
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Credit: Sickness, its trials and blessings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    you rightly feel that you cuwht not to disturb your attendant, who may be asleep in an ad- joinino- room. You know too what it is to lie and hear or know that she is asleep, and to be tempted to envy her, until at last you feel as if you could not bear that she should have such comfort, and you be deprived of it; and you are tempted to wake her. Beware how you yield to such a temptation ; resolve never on any ex- cuse to call her, never unless it is truly neces- sary. If you once yielded to such a tempta- tion, it would assault you more strongly the next time, until either your selfishness gained the mastery, or your conflict would be very sharp. There is no way of meeting this trial but by looking at these wearisome nights as a^- foiniod'''' you, and saying, It is the iciiU of God. Think, when you are able, of His unspeakable nearness to you: Yea, the darkness hidethnot from Thee ; but the night shineth as the day : the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee ^ Think of His agony, that night of agony; your weariness and weakness cannot be greater than His was. You cannot pray perhaps continuously; but however short the petition may be, however broken the sentence, —even a mere groan,—it will reach His eai's. At any rate you may seek to feel that His left hand is under your head, that His right liand doth embrace ^ you. Lay yourself then 2 Ps. cxxxix, 12. ^ C'aut. ii. C.
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