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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    diminishes, but goes on its weary way; the strength, and nerves, and heart, meanwhile, giving way. Such trials should teach us most deeply to value the long, unwearied, patient, faithful kindness of some Medical friend, who has continued, in spite of all discouragements, to visit still, not in the expectation of cure, but just in the hope of alleviating, and soothing, and comforting. Such will, indeed, have their reward * they shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just ^and shall surely find, even now, that blessed is he that considereth the sick and the needy: the Lord shall have pity on him in tho time of troublePeople are apt to extol those who cure them, but how far greater praise and grati- tude do they desei-ye, who have not this reward of their skill ? They who are not blessed with such good gifts from God, may at least take comfort that the Great Physician fainteth not, neither is He wearyThough no other hand may pour oil or wine into your wounds, He will do it; and He who has sent the pain, and all its innumerable trials, will stand by, at all times, to soothe, and cheer, and strengthen, and bless. Drink then with the patience of the Saints, and the God of Love will bless the medicine.''' Matt. X. 42. 8 Ps. xli. 1. ^ Luke xiv. 14. ' Isa. Ix. 28.
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