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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    svver; that they may be, though a faulty, yet an acceptable, fulfilling of the precept: “ For this thing will I be inquired of, saith the Lord.” Do not our Saviour’s words encour- age us to seek knowledge as well as other gifts, when He says, “ I call you not servants, but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” If we knew all things that the Father does, would our hearts be consoled ? would our sorrows be turned into joy ? Does not the secret anticipation of the heart, in answer to this question, mark the distinction of the be- liever and the faithless ? I believe that by such knowledge sorrow would be turned into joy; I think it may even be seen that it would ; that we may have a knowledge now that proves it Accustomed as we have been to be in dark- ness, and to bear sorrow unassuaged (de- barred by loss and lapse from our privilege as Christian men,) have we not almost forgotten that the Spirit is the Comforter; that the gospel claims, as one of its chief ends, that we might have great consolation; that God has