Sickness, its trials and blessings.

  • Maurice, Priscilla, 1810-
Date:
1859
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sickness, its trials and blessings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    125/346 page 107
    ]07 walk, and yet you cannot afford to have any con- veyance. You are to take a great deal of nourish- ment, which to you is all but impossible, and you feel that you ought to deny yourself every little comfort. Thus you become more and more out of lieart and hopeless. All this, and the innumerable trials which be- long to this state, which are best known to those sufferers into whose soul the iron enters, are indeed most bitter griefs. Painful as it may be to you, perhaps it will be your duty to make those friends acquainted with your tiial who can assist you. Do not let any pride keep you from it. If our Lord has called you to walk with Him in poverty, remember that He has sanctified the state ; it is henceforward a holy state. Do not let the fear of troubling them hinder you from speaking to them, since He has said, that He will look on all acts of mercy as done to Himself: Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me ^ Do not defraud your friends of the blessing which is promised to those who give even a cup of cold water to a disciple in the name of a disciple'. You will seek also to take it humbly and thankfully if you are refused ; receiving this trial also as from the hands of God. After all, your true and sure comfort will be, that God has called you into this state; that He who has passed through it all, our sympathizing High Priest, knows every step of
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3