The mystery of pain / with an introduction by James R. Nichols.

  • Hinton, James, 1822-1875.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The mystery of pain / with an introduction by James R. Nichols. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    part of it, and live for that and die for it, that would be God's greatest 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 de- lights. 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 experi- ence which is unseen by us; and that sac- rifice 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 con- stitution of our own nature so -evidently agree as to give it the greatest possible confirmation. But I may first say a few words respecting the demand which is thus