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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    learn hereby that man walketh in a vain show, that he is disquieted in vain''.' They need that what is kind and sympathizing and gentle in them should be drawn forth, and thus developed. They need to see life real and in earnest, with all its gloss stripped off; what it comes to; what they must come to. They need this voice to say to them, Be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh^ To show them all this is one office of sick- ness. If thus you look upon sickness as a work, a mission, one to which God has called you, although you seem called only to suffer, you will not look upon it as a lonesome lot. IV. THE SEEMING LENCiTH OF SICKNESS. A LIFE-LONG sickness! what a dreary thought! It seems as if it were said to be unending : yet What is your life ? It is even as a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then va- nisheth away.^' Medical men may speak of its lasting an indefinite time, for its length is undefined to them; but with God are the issues of life and of death. He will daily and hourly, yea, moment by moment, apportion to Ps. xxxix. G. 5 Matt. xxiv. 44. ^ James iv. ] 4. c 2
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