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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    near and says wovds of sympathy for one part of the trial; another for some other part ; a third sees no trial in it at all; a fourth thinks it must be much less trying than some other form of suffering, or than his own. No one but the sufferer sees it in all its bearings and forms of inward suffering; no one else feels the acute pain of heart and all its throbbings. Each one leaves some disappointment behind, or else makes the sufferer say, I should be quite alone, or at least only very imperfectly understood, if I had my fellow-sufferers only to depend on. Each one seems wrapped in his own sorrow ; his eyes too intently fixed on it to see mine, except very dimly. I must ' appeal to the world where all things are understood,' and to Him who 'weigheth the spirits.''' The w'eight of life, the burden of doing, are hard to bear; still more so, perhaps, when borne in conjunction with sickness. The weary longing for work: the toilsome days which all seem spent for self, and in which you seem never to do any thing for others, but merely to add very much to their burdens; and you grow sadder and more hopeless as time goes on and brings no relief. As each morning dawns, it seems but to open another day of selfishness. It seems to you that you could do sometliing, loJiat you cannot exactly tell, where to turn for work you do not know. Your friends, perhaps, think you unfit for any exertion; in their kind-
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