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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    Your calling^ your vocation.''' As such you will feel it very good. You will feel also that no state can he good excepting that to which He calls you; and you will desire to have no choice whether to live or die, to remain in your present state, or to recover your bodily health. Whatever is clearly your work, your calling, that do; and be sure that we have no hard Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed He will give you strength for each thing that He calls you to. But you must ever remember that it is what He calls you to, and not in any self-chosen path, that you can look for the powder to perform. This is your work now. Do not think scorn of it. Do not lightly esteem it. The work requires great patience, great faith, great love, great submission. Say then, has He not honoured you by trusting it to you ? Do you ask how you can show forth His praise, if you cannot stir hand or foot, and can scarcely think I The answer will give you work enough, for it will require a vigorous, earnest, daily, hourly conflict; a sharp rule over your- self, your tempers, your most easily-besetting sins: truly a fight of faith, which you cannot fight unless you take unto yourself the whole armour of God « Matt. XXV. 24. 1 Epli. vi. 13.
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