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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    Thy will be done. Then take it as His will, and that will change the nature of the trial: bear it submissively, until He sees fit to remove it from you. There may be many cases in which the nurse that has been hired may be really very unsuit- able, therefore it is better to speak to some friend about it: and if it seems to them in the same light as to yourself, it is best to make a change as soon as possible. We may receive the most helpful discipline to ourselves from the various characters of our attendants, if we resolve to do so; otherwise they will but fret us, and stir up the evil which is in us. We need not seek out those which will try us. On the contrary, it is far better for them and for us, that we should choose those who seem likely to suit us. In every character we shall find something not quite according to our liking; let us take this as wholesome discipline, and use it as such. Are you very impatient and impetuous by nature ? Your attendant may be very valuable to you, and yet she may be a continual chastisement to you by reason of her slowness. It is very discouraging to her, and bad for you, that you should bo constantly chiding her for it, or trying to hurry her. Take it as a means of correcting the evil that is in you, and it will surely prove so: few things can so constantly remind you of your besetting sin, and warn you
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