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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    too, and our sorrows for the redemption of the world. If we might undertake that work, a small, the smallest, part of it, and live for that and die for it, that would be God’s great- est gift to us. His best gift, then, would be, not in our pleasures but in our sorrows; in our losses and evils, not in our possessions or delights. If this one fact of the use of our lives by God in the redemption of the world were true, the very foundations of our life would be changed, the current of our thought and feeling must pour itself through a new channel. The view, then, that I desire to suggest rests upon these two thoughts : that there is something accomplished in our experience which is unseen by us ; and that sacrifice for others is a good. For this unseen work that is done through us is something done for others. With this view I think we shall find here- after that both the facts of life and the consti- tution of our own nature so evidently agree as to give it the greatest possible confirmation. But I may first say a few words respecting