Sickness, its trials and blessings.

Maurice, Priscilla, 1810-

Date:: 1859

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$one of them is forgotten before Him. And even if you seem to yourself quite forsaken by God, it cannot be worse with you, than with Him, who said, My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me ' ? At least He is with you in the deepest sympathy, and most tender pity. You say, 0 ray God, I cry in the day time, but Thou hearest not; and in the night season also I take no rest \ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in a place of darkness, and in the deep. Thine indignation lieth hard upon me, and Thou hast vexed me with all Thy storms. Lord, why abhorrest Thou my soul: and hidest Thou Thy face from me ? I am in miser}', and like unto him that is at the point to die But you can never say these words alone ; you can- not feel, never was sorrow like unto my sor- row or grief like unto my grief; for there is One who bare your griefs, and carried your sorrows and who bears them now. You would not dare to utter your tempta- tions, lest you should be suggesting thoughts to some other sufferer, in whose mind they had as yet found no place. Do not fear to tell them all to Him. No temptation that can assault you, can be strange to Him. He suffered being tempted, that He might be able to succour them who are temptedIn those « I;uke xii. 0. » Matt, xxvii. 40. ' Ps. xxii. 2. 2 Ps. Ixxxviii. 5, C. 14, 15. Lam. i. 12. < Isa. liii. 4. * Hob. ii. 18.$

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