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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    DISAPPOINTMENTS, &;c. say that you cannot tell Him, but that He knows your trouble. Ask Him, if it please Him, to help you to let your light shine be- fore men, that they, seeing your good works, may glorify your Father which is in Heaven' but if it must be otherwise, then to help you to say, Thy will be done ^ Friends will say also that you have so much leisure time, that they envy you your leisure; that they sometimes long to be ill that they may have more uninterrujjted time to serve God ; and that they think that illness is such a time for communion with God, and for growing in grace. Do not be discouraged by this. Do not fancy that because you find it otherwise, therefore you are wholly in a wrong state; and that all the past has been but delusion. It is afterward that it yieldeth the peace- able fruits of righteousness to them who are exercised thereby '^T Leave it all to His right- eous judgment—leave yourself in His hands. He knows your circumstances, your pain, and every thing that belongs to you; and He will judge you according to those circumstances, and not according to your estimate of yourself, or of them. Fret not thyself in this matter ; but as you suffer according to the will of God, so commit yourself into the hands of Him your faithful Creator*. ' Matt. V. IG. « Matt. xxvi. 42.
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