The mystery of pain : a book for the sorrowful / by James Hinton.

  • James Hinton
Date:
1872
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Credit: The mystery of pain : a book for the sorrowful / by James Hinton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seeming wrong. Their souls, which might stand erect before the utterest tortures which right could demand, or reason could inflict, writhe in impotent passion in face of that cold, unanswering law which will spare no- thing, or that cruel caprice which lays its sacrilegious choice upon the best. What they demand is to see a right and purpose in the loss and wrong. It is a human cry, which surely God does not despise. Is it not, indeed, a faith ignorant of itself ?—an assurance that there must be in God’s world a right, a perfect reason, which would not baulk our hearts or mock our hopes if we could know it ? Surely we ought not to be impatient of these demands, even when they are most impatiently urged. Those who do not feel them, or who have succeeded in hushing them within their own bosoms, may permit them to be weighed and pon- dered to the full for others’ sakes. Perhaps, too, it may be found that these passionate questionings do not lead us altogether wrong; that God’s own Spirit may be prompting them, designing to meet them with an an-