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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    form of real, constant trial—a daily cross; if they could choose, and see only certain persons, and at certain times, they would indeed feel thankful. If circumstances make it plain that this is their calling, they have no right to try to alter it, or to groan under it; but should seek to learn how to receive each person as the present message sent to them by God for their profit, either to help and bless them, or to try their pa- tience, and faith, and hope, and love ; to exer- cise them in these things. Or the visitor may be sent to receive from the sick person ministries of consolation, or help, or warning. If it be plainly marked out that it is your duty to see them, that you are called to do so, then do not shrink from the suffering it may cost your body, but yield up that, as you have often done before, as a living sacrificeand ask God to bless the visit in whatever way He sees best, and so shall you hereby entertain angels unawares ^ Some people will tell you that you look par- ticularly well, just when you are suffering the most. Others will say, How much better you look than when I saw you last! when you know and feel that you have been growing worse ever since. Some will say, You look so much bet- ter than I expected to see you ; your eyes are so bright, and you look so cheerful, you cannot surely be suflfering as much as you say when
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