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The Mission of Sorrow: On God's Benevolent Design in our Afflictions.
The Mission of Sorrow On God's Benevolent Design in our Afflictions Author:Gardiner Spring It must be a hard heart that is not touched with the sorrows of the bereaved. Our sympathy may give courage to the mourner, and relieve his solitude, even where it cannot alleviate his woes. Calamity in every form makes an appeal to every Christian mind for correspondent feeling, for fellowship, for counsel. The sorrows which for months past hav... more »e inundated this land, and which now sweep over it like the waves of the sea, have been vividly present to the writer of these pages; and he would gladly give utterance to a few thoughts in which his own heart beats in unison with the afflicted. We weep with those who weep. "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." We "remember those who are in adversity, as being ourselves also in the body." We have all much to be thankful for, and much to mourn over. Sorrow has its approved mission. If the Father of mercies "does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men," there must be some reason for these afflictions? a "needs be" that is absolute and imperative. We should "hear the rod, and him who has appointed it." CONTENTS: Chapter 1 ? Sorrow God's Witness Chapter 2 ? Sorrow Deserved Chapter 3 ? Submission Under Sorrow Chapter 4 ? Sorrow Disturbs Idolatrous Attachments Chapter 5 ? Sorrow The Friend of Christian Graces Chapter 6 ? Sorrow Taking Lessons from the Bible Chapter 7 ? Sorrow At the Throne of Grace Chapter 8 ? Fitness for Heaven Through Sorrow Chapter 9 ? No Sorrow There« less