The mystery of pain : a book for the sorrowful.

  • Hinton, James, 1822-1875.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The mystery of pain : a book for the sorrowful. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    wise, then do we not choose to join evil with His name? Not to believe our pains serve others' good, and are the fact of man's re- demption, is but to disbelieve in God. It is to doubt His goodness, and contradict the very evidence on which we assert His being. Once recognised in its true meaning, the thought ceases to be a question of argument and balanced evidence; it sinks into the soul, and becomes part of that deep conviction on which all religion rests. Pain cannot be inter- preted otherwise than thus, when once we see that it can be thus interpreted. The heart rises up from its chains and rejoices. God has revealed Himself; He has manifested joy, and we see it and are glad. Amid our tears we smile, for when our woes are deepest, then our joys are highest. Then we are likest Him, are nearest to the dignity of manhood ; partakers most in that on which all living joy is based, needing only that our life be per- fected to make it joy. We seek to be delivered from pain and sorrow, and God designs to deliver us. Vainly we seek, but He accomplishes. Our end is